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Title: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: magnust on March 05, 2013, 06:09:26 am
Well, I think I said it all in the subject line.


Pleeeeze pleeeze  :)


Anyone else that want this too please add a post in this thread with "+1", "me too" or "hell yeah"  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: kstuart on March 05, 2013, 11:08:50 am
+1 definitely - especially the "larger" part (although I realize that there is not unlimited space).
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: Vocalpoint on March 06, 2013, 08:49:31 am
+1 definitely - especially the "larger" part (although I realize that there is not unlimited space).

Oh a huge +1 or even a +1000 here.

I have been hoping for this for a long time. With today's wide screen monitors - I do not understand the need to devote the foot or so of space currently given to the the "display" area.

Ideally - I would love to see a "sizer" bar between the "display" and search area that would allow the user to size the two areas in in context of one another.

Surely with the v18 switch away from the Microsoft foundation classes/libraries - dev could now consider implementing a solution to give us more a single inch of non-sizable space to search? I use search a lot and as it is now - it's usable - but barely.

VP
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: StFeder on March 06, 2013, 09:05:43 am
-1

If the layout is kept a bigger search field would bring a smaller playing now display and seekbar. I have MCs display configured to show many infos inside the display, so it sometimes needs all available space. I see that there are some good reasons for a bigger search field, but for me it's big enough, so I'd prefer to leave it as it is.

But:
Ideally - I would love to see a "sizer" bar between the "display" and search area that would allow the user to size the two areas in in context of one another.
This would be a nice and handy addition :)
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: r_harms on March 06, 2013, 09:12:41 am
Adding history to the search would be a Mega +1 for me.

A larger size search box would be a benefit too, especially if it could accommodate a larger font...

Rick
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: magnust on March 12, 2013, 07:03:00 am
Wow, what a rush of requests, a stampede, a tsunami.... or not  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: MusicBringer on April 06, 2013, 12:30:32 pm
Oh I didn't know there was a search field  ;)
It is so small I didn't realise it was there.
It obviously needs to grow/shrink with the size of the text displayed.
Esp when your eyesight is not what it was.
So I agree: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: Vocalpoint on April 06, 2013, 12:44:17 pm
Yes - I have never understood the JRiver design angle to this...I mean a 1 inch search box?

It would be almost more beneficial to move the search panel to the bottom or have it "pop up" at the bottom as needed (Ctrl-F) - sort of like how Firefox does it....

But definitely needs more space to type more than one or two words....

VP
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: kstuart on April 06, 2013, 12:53:21 pm
" It would be almost more beneficial to move the search panel to the bottom or have it "pop up" at the bottom as needed (Ctrl-F) - sort of like how Firefox does it.... "

+1 on both of those ideas !
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: magnust on April 06, 2013, 03:17:12 pm
Have this ever happened to you:

You enter a search, for example an artist you want to play. But no results are found because you are in a library view that is only showing a part of your full library. The "click here to search your full library" does not show up since it's... well I don't know why but it happens a lot.

So you click another library view that will enable you searching for the artist.

And now the search box is empty and you need to enter the full artist name again manually  ::) I wish there was a simple history drop down like in web browsers and other programs.
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: MusicBringer on April 06, 2013, 04:39:14 pm
Have this ever happened to you:

You enter a search, for example an artist you want to play. But no results are found because you are in a library view that is only showing a part of your full library. The "click here to search your full library" does not show up since it's... well I don't know why but it happens a lot.

So you click another library view that will enable you searching for the artist.

Yes, it happens a lot. Grrhh.
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: Vincent Kars on April 06, 2013, 06:06:17 pm
Yes - I have never understood the JRiver design angle to this...I mean a 1 inch search box?

It would be almost more beneficial to move the search panel to the bottom or have it "pop up" at the bottom as needed (Ctrl-F) - sort of like how Firefox does it....

But definitely needs more space to type more than one or two words....

VP
Try F3
Needs a bigger box too
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: magnust on April 07, 2013, 07:03:56 am
Try F3
Needs a bigger box too

Wow. That one was a surprise! Pretty good!

It works very differently to the normal search. The normal one in the upper right corner works like a filter. And the F3 as a search. But what does "find all" actually do in the F3 case? Didn't understand that.
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: Vocalpoint on April 07, 2013, 08:18:41 am
Wow. That one was a surprise! Pretty good!

It works very differently to the normal search. The normal one in the upper right corner works like a filter. And the F3 as a search. But what does "find all" actually do in the F3 case? Didn't understand that.

+1 But it doesn't display results. Rather it's a "step through" kind of thing - oddly - exactly like Firefox :)

Not really of much use without being able to quickly hone in on a result - but might come in handy now and then.

Thanks for the tip!

VP
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: whatsup on April 09, 2013, 08:17:56 am
Wow. That one was a surprise! Pretty good!

It works very differently to the normal search. The normal one in the upper right corner works like a filter. And the F3 as a search. But what does "find all" actually do in the F3 case? Didn't understand that.

was just about to complain I couldn't find a artist because the search field was jammed up with every thing but the artist I was looking for....then I saw this post about F3 and whala there was the artist....thnks for the F3 info....
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: Supersnake on April 09, 2013, 03:32:09 pm
Feeling nicely warm and fuzzy....think tanks do that I guess.
Title: Re: Please make the search field larger and add history. Pretty pretty please.
Post by: contium on May 24, 2013, 11:32:13 am
Bigger search box please. F3 doesn't really work that well.