From: Ulf Lamping | Guy Harris wrote: | | >Greg Morris said: | > | > | >>I was getting complaints from users about "When I am searching it wraps | >>around and I don't remember where I started from". This is just a | >>feature to inform the user that they have reached the end of the file | >>and the search is continuing back at the beginning. Adobe Acrobat and | >>most Office type applications notify the user when searches reach the | >>end of the file. | >> | >> | > | >At least some of the Windows applications I've seen do so because they | >don't wrap the search (which I *REALLY* hate in, for example, some Windows | >Web browsers, as it forces me to go to a backwards search, which means the | >next search I do is a backwards search, so if I want a forwards search I | >have to remember to switch back to a forwards search). | > | >Others do wrap, e.g. Quicken. | > | >Is this a Windows vs. various-UNIX-desktops (a category into which I'm | >putting Mac OS X) issue? | > | On win32, some applications will ask, some won't ask, and some won't | even wrap. | So there's no real standard behaviour in this topic. | | I think this is a better behaviour to show this dialogs, as it let's the | user know whats going on.
One might also update the status line in the bottom of Ethereal to do so (that's the way VI does this). Regards, Olivier _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
