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Bug 58276 - Find dialog sometimes hides text which is searched
Summary: Find dialog sometimes hides text which is searched
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Milutin Kristofic
URL: http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/find_i...
Keywords: USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-04-25 13:42 UTC by Roman Strobl
Modified: 2011-07-08 12:58 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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