Find Symbol selection

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In v18, when I brought up the Find Symbol dialog, it highlighted the previous search text making it easy to replace it with a new term.  In v19 (up to RC4) the text box still has focus by default but no longer highlights the existing text.  Is this intentional?

[Rodney]

Looks like a bug.

++rodney

[machish]

I had assumed that this bug fix barely missed 19.0.0, so I've been patiently waiting for the next release. Unfortunately, 19.0.1.1's Find Symbol window still behaves the same way.
It is annoying to have to do 'Find Symbol', highlight the entire phrase, and then start typing. I'm much more programmed to start typing, and then see that there is annoying suffix of the previous search string messing things up...

-martin

[Rodney]

Sorry, but this fell through the cracks. Good news is that it will be in the first 19.0.1 hotfix due out shortly after 19.0.1 is final.

In the meantime, if you are comfortable with Slick-C, you can hack this in yourself:
In macros/se/ui/toolwindow.e, around line 1807, change:

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            focus_to_wid._set_focus();

to:

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            if ( _get_focus() != focus_to_wid ) {
               focus_to_wid._set_focus();
            } else {
               focus_to_wid.call_event(focus_to_wid, ON_GOT_FOCUS, 'w');
            }

Save and load the module (Macro>Load Module).

++rodney

[machish]

Thanks Rodney! That's great! (Also the first time I edited slick-c .