[Geany-devel] [RFC] Document Messages

[Lex Trotman]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 12:51 AM, Alexander Petukhov wrote:
>>
>> On 11/7/11 5:12 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I started working on something I'm calling "document messages" for
>>> lack of a better name. Put another way, GtkInfoBar :)
>>>
>>> The changes add a new document function called
>>> `document_show_message()` which will either show a GtkInfoBar on top
>>> of the Scintilla widget with the message or just show a modal dialog
>>> depending if the GTK+ version supports GtkInfoBar (2.18).
>>>
>>> I've only ported `monitor_reload_file()` and
>>> `monitor_resave_missing_file()` to use the new function for now,
>>> because I needed something to test with.
>>>
>>> The commits are here:
>>> https://github.com/codebrainz/geany/commits/document-messages
>>>
>>> And a screenshot is here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/codebrainz/misc/raw/master/screenshots/geany-document-message.png
>>>
>>>
>>> Feedback is welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Matthew Brush
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>>
>> looks good, isn't it possible to change find in current file UI in the
>> same manner, as in firefox, would be pretty usable imho.
>>
>
> I actually have a plugin I've been working on that does exactly that. It's a
> really simplified search bar that pops-up under the editor window and it's
> basically a clone of Firefox's find bar.  The only difference is that it has
> an "Advanced" button that opens the normal find dialog which has way more
> options.
>
> I can't see something like this ever replacing the normal find dialog since
> the find dialog is so much more powerful, but it could possibly replace the
> find thing in the toolbar.
>
> At some point in the near future I'll push the plugin's code to a Github
> repository.

Like this idea, get a move on :)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
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