Re: [Evolution-hackers] Firefox style search bar in evolution

[Bryan Clark <bclark redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:47 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
>     I guess that i hides when the click /focus goes out of the bar.. is that so?

Yeah, the behavior works like this.  Ctrl-F shows the bar with focus in the entry.  Typing auto incrementally searchings for the first match.  Once you stop typing you can cycle through successive matches by pressing enter.  When you click somewhere else and the find bar loses focus it auto-hides itself.  If you press Ctrl-F again the find bar reappears with the old text remaining in the entry, but selected so you could start typing new text without having to select and delete.

You can check out Evince to see how the behavior works if you'd like to test it out.

http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads

Cheers,
~ Bryan
>     >>>Not Zed <notzed ximian com> 05/12/05 4:07 am >>>
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>     I don't really understand what eggfindbar does apart from take an awful lot of code to show a very simple set of widgets?
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>     And if it doesn't have the close button, i presume it can't be hidden?
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>     On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:57 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
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> >         For Evince we are sharing the eggfindbar [1] with Epiphany, you might want to take a look at that code, it doesn't have that close button.  Here's [2] a screenshot of what searching in Evince looks like.
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> >         I don't know that having two search bars would necessarily be confusing for people in the single message view.  Of course in the preview pane I agree you might want to do something different.
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> > [1] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/shell/eggfindbar.c?rev=1.5&view=markup
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> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/shell/eggfindbar.h?rev=1.3&view=markup
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> >         [2] http://gnome.org/~clarkbw/tmp/Screenshot-hig.pdf.png
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> >         On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:50 +0530, Not Zed wrote:
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> > >             Two search bars could be confusing.  The x button is ugly too.
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> > >             Performance could be a problem, if you wanted to have a type-as-you-go search, which presumably you do.  Currently for the match highlighting (for 'all matches', not the 'current match'), we have to re-render the entire message.  That feature would probably have to be removed for the interactive search (i think we can still have it for the message list search value).
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> > >             On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 04:59 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:  
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> > > > I have implemented firefox style search bar in evolution. I have attached a screenshot of that. Of course it works well :- ) (Except the previous button). It also inherits the old issues like, 'doesnt know what to do when preview pane is off' sort of problems.
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> > > > I want your opinon on this, so that i can improve further and put it in.
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> > > > Thanks
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> > > > Srini.
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