AW: [plt-scheme] Replace & Find in v4.1

Thanks to you both, Ben and Robby.
It was exactly what I wanted to write about the issue today, because after a
long day I needed some rest and food.
Robert

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: robby.findler at gmail.com [mailto:robby.findler at gmail.com] 
> Im Auftrag von Robby Findler
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. August 2008 22:56
> An: Ben Goetter
> Cc: Robert Matovinovic; plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
> Betreff: Re: [plt-scheme] Replace & Find in v4.1
> 
> 
> Oh, yes. I see. Very helpful.
> 
> Technically, the tan oval is part of searching (which is the 
> root of the problem).
> 
> Thanks,
> Robby
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Ben Goetter 
> <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:
> > Robby Findler wrote:
> >>>
> >>> However, text selections made via the
> >>> "Find" button (as opposed to the Edit/Find Again menu 
> item) are not 
> >>> highlighted visibly; and the subsequent selection of the 
> next match 
> >>> by "Replace & Find" is not visibly highlighted, either.
> >>>
> >>
> >> There should be. If the focus is in the window where you're 
> >> searching, you should see the selection move. If the focus 
> is in the 
> >> search window, you should see a tan circle moving around 
> inside the 
> >> purple circles. Maybe that is just too light somehow?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > No, it really isn't being drawn in response to Find Again 
> via button.  
> > Find Again via keyboard menuitem accelerator works as expected.
> >
> > To repro:
> > 1. Start a fresh DrScheme.  (Win XP SP2)
> > 2. In the defns pane, type "one two three four five six seven" 3. 
> > Ctrl+f to go to the Find field 4. Type "three" - you'll see 
> the proper 
> > purple oval appear in the defns pane 5. Without keyboard 
> focus leaving 
> > rhe Find field, type Ctrl+g.  You'll see the light tan, 
> indicative of 
> > selection in a text control that doesn't have focus.
> > 6. Click with mouse back into the defns pane to clear the 
> selection and give
> > the pane focus
> > 7. Now click the Find button.  It won't draw any text 
> selection, either
> > light tan or blue.
> > 8. Pull down the Edit menu. All the Replace menu items are 
> enabled, because
> > in fact the text is selected -- just invisibly so.
> > 9. You can prove the selection by mousing into the Replace 
> field, typing
> > "baz" or some such, and pressing the Replace button.  The 
> invisibly selected
> > "three" will be replaced with "baz."
> >
> > Invisible selections is the only confusing thing.  Once you can see 
> > the selections, it'll be easy to figure out what the controls do.
> >
> >
> >
>