Philippe Nobili wrote: > Philippe Nobili wrote: >> Hussein Shafie wrote: >>> The "Find Element" dialog box has never been intended to be extensively >>> used. Therefore we do not plan to improve its usability in the near future. >>> >> Too bad. Just a very simple change as adding an '*Apply*' button >> (which would perform the search without closing the window) to the >> dialog box as it is now would already help *a lot*. > Dear Mr. Hussein, > > Would the change mentioned above be easy to do ?
Nothing is easy when it comes to change something in a *product*. This means developing, testing, documenting the slightest change. In the above case, this certainly not mean "simply adding an Apply button". It would not work because the "Find Element" dialog box is modal. That is, the dialog box prevents you from doing anything else within XXE until it's closed. > > Something else that would ease a lot both search (& replace if applies) > sequences for attribute and text, is the automatic focus placed on the > editing views (although I am not sure it is feasible). Here is some > explananation about this: > > Let's suppose I want to search for a certain text pattern within my > (big) document, and replace it by something else. Unfortunately, this > "something" is not always the same thing from place to to place. > > In this case, what would be efficient is to use the search panel and at > each match, having the focus automatically placed in the editing view at > the matching location (the caret is already there), so that we can edit > and change the text. > > Instead: we have to search, move at the caret position to take the > focus, do the editing change, move back to the search panel, search > again.... This looks OK, but it's actually a lot of editing time lost > for big documents. > > I hope this is not too confusing and makes some sense, > All the best, I'm sorry but I'll repeat what I've already said in my previous email: --- The "Find Element" dialog box has never been intended to be extensively used. Therefore we do not plan to improve its usability in the near future. ---
