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Search enhancement

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:58 pm
by Thomas Lohrum
Alex,

one minor suggestion for the search-dialog. When pressing Ctrl+F inside the dialog, please select all of the search-text. This allows to easy select and clear the text after editing. Tools like Chrome and Adobe Reader support this too.

Thanks!

Thomas

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:20 am
by CintaNotes Developer
Hi Thomas,

Don't quite get it - Ctrl+F inside of search dialog currently doesn't work.. perhaps you mean Alt+F (to focus the "Find" box)?

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:58 pm
by Thomas Lohrum
Steps to reproduce:

  • create new note
  • press Ctrl+F
  • Enter "abc"
  • press Ctrl+F again

The last Ctrl+F should select all of the text and highlight it, so search-text can be reset easily.

Thomas

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:22 am
by CintaNotes Developer
And what's the point in pressing Ctrl+F when the focus is already in the "Find" box?

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:40 am
by Thomas Lohrum
CintaNotes Developer wrote:And what's the point in pressing Ctrl+F when the focus is already in the "Find" box?

It's not about the focus. The point is, that the search-text inside the dialog is not selected. By pressing Ctrl+F again i want the search-text to be selected. By pressing "Clear" or any other character the search-text will be deleted automatically. You can use my steps to reproduce the behaviour in Adobe Reader. It is convenient when you want to search for a new word.

Thomas

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:38 am
by CintaNotes Developer
Now I see what you mean. I agree that it would be useful and added this to the tracker.
I also think that when dialog is visible, Ctrl+F and Ctrl+Shift+F should work the same as F3/Shift+F3.
Thanks!

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:47 am
by Thomas Lohrum
CintaNotes Developer wrote:Now I see what you mean. I agree that it would be useful and added this to the tracker.

Thanks!

CintaNotes Developer wrote:I also think that when dialog is visible, Ctrl+F and Ctrl+Shift+F should work the same as F3/Shift+F3.

That sounds rather strange. Especially since we had just agreed, that Ctrl+F will select the current search-text. Now it would also jump to the next match, if any match available?

Thomas

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:57 am
by CintaNotes Developer
Thomas Lohrum wrote:That sounds rather strange. Especially since we had just agreed, that Ctrl+F will select the current search-text. Now it would also jump to the next match, if any match available?


Yes, that's what I was thinking about. But now coming to think it through, probably this is not the best idea after all.
Let's limit the changes to focusing and selecting the search text.

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:21 am
by Thomas Lohrum
CintaNotes Developer wrote:Let's limit the changes to focusing and selecting the search text.

Agreed. Thanks :)

Thomas

Re: Search enhancement

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:14 pm
by CintaNotes Developer
Please take a look at 2.7 Beta 2