RJTe REQUEST: Search Dialog Box Non Modal

[yereverluvinuncleber]

In RJTexEd we have two search forms, the bottom of the screen and a modal search box. This request is referring to the modal search box.

The current Search Dialog Box when defined as a pop-up window is a Modal form and it has to be closed before we can access the main form and touch our code.

I am equally used to the VB6 IDE that has a non-modal pop-up search box, in all manners it is very similar to that displayed in RJTextEd except that it is non-modal. This makes it very usable, you can fire up a search or a replace, select search options but still be able to interact with the main body of your code.

If the developer has made any recent search/replace changes, you can just stop and make a minor change elsewhere, do some manual editing, then return to the search/replace without any interruption in workflow or context. This process seems to work more freely and easily and for me, it allows me to sneak into the code and fix something quickly then return to what I was doing with the search dialog still there, ready to go.

I also find it useful to do a quick scroll up/down of the code just before initiating a search and replace operation, gives me confidence to be able to look at my code whilst doing such an operation. If you can get hold of a copy of VB6 or another language's IDE with a non-modal search dialog then it is worth experimenting to see the benefits.

I think RJTextEd would benefit from similarly operating non-modal search dialogs as per those in the VB6 IDE.

[pjj]

The same behaviour is present in MS Word and I find it very useful and valuable, since when looking for foo I stumble upon bar (in the text) I am able to correct it asap, without closing the modal and then opening it again. So +1, though I understand it may be not an easy task to implement this feature.