Search/replace dialog behaves oddly after processing

[Jefficus]

Select search and replace from the menu. This opens a S/R dialog, which gives us a button to run a Search and Replace. This may be confusing, since the user thinks we're already DOING a search and replace.

This button should be relabelled "Execute"

Once the execute process has begun, another dialog opens with Replace/Next, Skip/Next and Quit buttons. When all the targets have been processed, a message box opens with "Reach the end of the Document."

This should be changed to "Reached the end of the document." (Note spelling and capitalizations.)

The Replace/Skip dialog should close automatically when the end-of-document alert has been cleared. (It currently stays open.)

Also, the main search/replace dialog remains open, but if I click on the Search/Replace button again, it finds nothing to change. Even if I change the search target to something new, it will find nothing. I suspect that the search position is not being reset to the beginning of the document when the Search/Replace button is first clicked.

For simplicity, when the Replace/Skip dialog closes, the Search/Replace dialog should close as well. If a user wants to run another search replace, we can live with forcing them to launch it again from the menu.

[Xiaonuo Gantan (xiaonuogantan)]

The required behaviour saying that "the Replace/Skip dialog should close automatically when the end-of-document alert has been cleared" only applies to the searching the "active document" is chosen, right? For the "open documents" and "all documents", I suppose the Replace/Skip dialog should keep searching to the next document instead of close when it reaches the end of the current document, right?

[Jefficus (jeff-smithicus)]

Yes, that makes sense.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Nikolai Roman <email address hidden> wrote:
> The required behaviour saying that "the Replace/Skip dialog should close
> automatically when the end-of-document alert has been cleared" only
> applies to the searching the "active document" is chosen, right? For the
> "open documents" and "all documents", I suppose the Replace/Skip dialog
> should keep searching to the next document instead of close when it
> reaches the end of the current document, right?
>
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