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Bug 58276

Summary:	Find dialog sometimes hides text which is searched
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Roman Strobl <rstrobl>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrojcek, olangr, phrebejk
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	USABILITY
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/find_integration/
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Roman Strobl 2005-04-25 13:42:19 UTC

When user searches for text which is repeated several times in a file it
sometimes happens that the searched text is behind find dialog. So user has to
take the mouse, move the dialog and continue searching.

It would be good if we would be able to move the dialog so that the searched
text is always visible. This issue was opened several times on mailling lists by
users.

If you think this is rather an enhancement, feel free to change it to RFE.

Comment 1 Martin Roskanin 2005-05-03 09:14:07 UTC

User can place the window to desired position, such that will not hide any found
occurences in editor - i.e. over file explorer.  Next opening should remember
the bounds. It is not defect. Changing to enhancement

Comment 2 _ gtzabari 2007-07-02 17:08:03 UTC

I also think this is an important usability enhancement. It is one of a handful of usability enhancements Visual Studio
has on competing IDEs (such as Netbeans) that we would do well to emulate.

Comment 3 Vitezslav Stejskal 2007-07-03 10:42:37 UTC

There is the new search bar (I think it is bound to ctrl-I), which I think will replace the old find dialog. AFAIK there
is still some UI design work in progress.

Comment 4 jrojcek 2007-07-03 11:20:54 UTC

See the spec in the URL field.

Comment 5 Milutin Kristofic 2011-07-08 12:58:15 UTC

Our new search bar solved this enhancement. (Ctrl + F) It already replaced old dialog.

It is true that Find & Replace Dialog still hides some text, but we can discuss such thing in this bug https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31283