RE: [Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:

> > Is wraparound-related feedback in *the Find dialog box itself*
> > acceptable ?
>
> A status bar in the dialog saying things like "N Items found" or "Wrapped
> Around" might work but it is probably better to just use a good message in
> the real status bar and require hitting Find twice, to go past the end of
> the document.

Agreed. One other possibility might be to automatically un-check the 'Wrap
around' checkbox once a wraparound has occured, but I'm not quite sure
this would be clear enough to the user to indicate what happened.


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