On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:27:12AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to help Tommaso to finish his Advanced Search dialog (see > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998). For this, we need a good > infrastructure for embedding one or more workareas into a dialog. So far > we have two options: > > 1) The dialog is a main window dependent dock widget: it then make sense > to be able to use the control in the main view toolbar for editing. > Implementation wise, this means that the main window (LyXView/GuiView) > has to know about the embedding status of the current work area. This is > more or less the way Tommaso has implemented his feature. > > 2) The dialog is independent from the main window (but dockable of > course): this means that the controls of the main window won't be > available. Implementation wise this mean that we would create a new > class inheriting from LyXView but specially tailored for embedded use > where things like buffer-switch etc don't make sense. Carefully chosen > controls can be chosen to be put in this reduced LyXView (the layout box > mainly). For complicated cases, my reasoning was that someone willing to > use this dialog will first type the text in the main window and, when > finished, copy&paste the text in the embedded dialog. > > I am not sure which one I like, yesterday it was 2) but today it is 1). > > Ideas or suggestions?
Wouldn't it be sufficient to have search&replace entiery embededed in the status bar somehow. I find s&r _dialogs_ terrible in general. Andre'
