After a great delay, I've created an issue[0] about the search dialogs being hidden behind the main window, and have a PR[1] up with a proposed fix.
[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue37177 [1] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13869 On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:13 PM Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have a strong opinion about the details of the search and replace > dialogs. However, I can tell you that a change replacing the dialog box > would be greatly appreciated. > > I teach Python classes using IDLE. The search dialog is a real a problem > for new students and me as the teacher. My students and I often get into a > scenario where the search dialog gets hidden behind a editing window. When > that happens, then you try to make edits in code and nothing happens. This > happens to very often. I have learned to look for the hidden search dialog > window, but my students get very flustered. > > I think that a search bar would be a great improvement. If you can model > it similar to the one in PyCharm, that would be wonderful. > > Thanks for looking into this issue. > > Irv > > > On Oct 13, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've recently been working on two new features, for which I'd like to > discuss whether it would be wise to include in IDLE. Each has a working > implementation in a PR to make it easy to give it a try. > > 1. Replace the search and replace dialogs with a search bar > https://bugs.python.org/issue34976 > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9855 > > 2. Ability to run 3rd party code checkers > https://bugs.python.org/issue21880 > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9802 > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! > > - Tal Einat > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev >
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