From: Ulf Lamping
| Guy Harris wrote:
|
| >Greg Morris said:
| >
| >
| >>I was getting complaints from users about "When I am searching it
wraps
| >>around and I don't remember where I started from". This is just a
| >>feature to inform the user that they have reached the end of the
file
| >>and the search is continuing back at the beginning. Adobe Acrobat
and
| >>most Office type applications notify the user when searches reach
the
| >>end of the file.
| >>
| >>
| >
| >At least some of the Windows applications I've seen do so because
they
| >don't wrap the search (which I *REALLY* hate in, for example, some
Windows
| >Web browsers, as it forces me to go to a backwards search, which
means the
| >next search I do is a backwards search, so if I want a forwards
search I
| >have to remember to switch back to a forwards search).
| >
| >Others do wrap, e.g. Quicken.
| >
| >Is this a Windows vs. various-UNIX-desktops (a category into which
I'm
| >putting Mac OS X) issue?
| >
| On win32, some applications will ask, some won't ask, and some won't
| even wrap.
| So there's no real standard behaviour in this topic.
|
| I think this is a better behaviour to show this dialogs, as it let's
the
| user know whats going on.
One might also update the status line in the bottom of Ethereal to do
so (that's the way VI does this).
Regards,
Olivier