This is the mail archive of the
insight@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the Insight project.
Search in Insight (was Re: More screen shots...)
- To: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Search in Insight (was Re: More screen shots...)
- From: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:01:53 -0700
Quite some time ago I did a set of Text Widget bindings for Bell Labs
that emulated the Emacs incremental search. I don't have the code any
more, because it belonged to AT&T - sigh. But it didn't take more than
a day or so to do, and IIRC was very straightforward. I even got the
backup behavior right, etc.
This seems to me more the way to go for Insight than a popup box. In
the debugger pane you don't want a heavy-weight search, you want:
"quickly find the next occurrence of this" type behavior. I think the
incremental search would be a great way to provide this capability, and
wouldn't require an extra widget, popup window or anything.
Sadly, I am not volunteering to do this, my hands are very full at
present. But I assure you it is not at all hard to do, so you might
think about it yourselves. I bet Tom could whip this up in short order,
seems like it is right up his alley :-)
BTW, though I haven't got any time to contribute, it makes me really
happy to see this much effort being put into Insight!!! Thanks, folks!
Jim
On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 11:45 AM, insight-digest-
help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
> From: Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu Oct 04, 2001 06:57:11 PM US/Pacific
> To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
> Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: More screen shots...
>
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>>
>> It is looking really nice.
>>
>> Where is the Search box going to be?
>
> I was thinking of adding a menu item some where for "Find..."
> and maybe an icon (magnifying glass looking over a page or
> something) to the toolbar. Selecting the menu item or clicking
> on the icon would bring up a dialog window with search options
> in it. The options are more likely radio buttons for functionality
> like search backwards and search forward, case sensitivity.
> I'll try and keep it simple, yet functional.
>
> This is the Source-Navigator search dialog box:
> http://sources.redhat.com/sourcenav/online-docs/userguide/editor-7.gif
>
> Something that would probably look similar, but written from scratch,
> the code isn't reusable unfortunately (maybe I can replace the search
> dialog in Source-Navigator as well).
>
> Ian.
>
--
Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
Developer Tools - gdb
Apple Computer