Re: [Usability] Standardizing Find and Replace - 2nd pass

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 05:08, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:

> 1) put the find&replace stuff on a toolbar
> 2) do the find incrementally (as the user types)
> 3) show all the matches at once with little marks on
> the scrollbar
> 4) replace clicking directly on the text

SoftQuad Panorama (an SGML viewer) used to display matches
next to the scrollbar like that, and it was very popular with
customers:

> There is one windows application that does something
> similar, but instead of putting the marks on the
> scrollbar, it puts them next to the toolbar (see
> http://e98cuenc.free.fr/search/search2.png)

Yes, exactly like that.  It showed the visible region on
the "matchbar" as well, and you could drag it, or click
near a match to go there.

A standard libgnomeui widget to do this would be good.

The location of a text box to type in a find pattern is a separate
issue.  You can tell that other people hate the find dialogue because
simply typing text into mozilla does a find!

Liam

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