Visual defect: 'Everything' in the search dialog

[ghisler(Author)]

In beta 11, I have moved the 'Everything' checkbox to the right of the "Search archives" checkbox - but only if there isn't enough space on the left.

The left spot is better to make sure that people don't miss the new option. Also there may not be enough space to the right of "Search archives" in all languages with small dialogs - I'm now measuring the length of the string and putting the checkbox behind it with a small distance.

[air]

In b11 not fit (last comma).

[j7n]

I think Lefteous' new design was awesome. I found that the spelling out of "regular expression" made the option seem more approachable. I'm not sure how the menu button could be implemented though.

The user normally has to make the dialog wider anyway to be able to read the file paths in the "search in" and the results list, and for the "epub" option to fit.

The current actual dialog looks cluttered - the Everything option doesn't align with the search depth listbox, which is also placed too close to the divider line below it. The new option jumping around could be confusing if one has to work on another person's computer configured with a larger font.

The readability of Verdana and Tahoma is good (and they allow to distinguish between L, I, O, and zero). I'd reserve Verdana for webpages and helpfiles. The expanded letter spacing takes a while to get used to, and looks weird if I have normal and expanded density dialogs from different software on screen simultaneously.

How do you force the font in other sofware? I found that even replacing Sans Serif with Tahoma, which have similar metrics, made controls frequently not fit, depending on how much slack space the author had allowed for them.

[air]

It's all is a bullshit. In my works I calculate dialogs width manually, no probs for calculate width of string with win32 API. Any pretenses, like "there is not enough space for all possible fonts" while dialog box fits in screen - is only pretenses.

[air]

120dpi, Verdana 8 - fit.

[air]

120 dpi, Verdana 8 - Ok!

[Lefteous]

My two cents on fonts. I think all dialogs should work with Segoe UI 9 (doesn't work currently) which is Windows standard and also standard in TC 9. It's really strange to have a different font for dialogs as in the rest of the program.

I'm not sure how the menu button could be implemented though

It's a button which opens a popup menu.

[air]

I work in XP, there is not Segoe here.
And I like Verdana

[Horst.Epp]

I work in XP, there is not Segoe here.
And I like Verdana

We are not talking about outdated unsecure OS versions

[air]

All OS are unsecure. I hope SEP & router help me a little

[phantom]

Only the default font (german language) fits to the search dialog.

Image: https://abload.de/img/search3uj7h.png

[AntonyD]

dear ghisler, i hope that you understand that "Lefteous' new design was awesome" and you only should copy it into your sources.

sincerely yours fans.

[ghisler(Author)]

In b11 not fit (last comma).

Not confirmed. Which font and size?

i hope that you understand that "Lefteous' new design was awesome" and you only should copy it into your sources.

I find it horrible. Instead of a single click to search for Unicode UTF-16, 2 are needed now. For Unicode UTF-16+UTF-8, 4 clicks are needed instead of 2.

[Lefteous]

Let's go and display all search options on the first tab. All other search options require an extra click and you cannot even see their current state.
But hey the current solution makes absolute sense as changing the text encoding is far more important than e.g. filtering by date.

[air]

In b11 not fit (last comma).

Not confirmed. Which font and size?.

Sorry, I wrote in other post (but can't remember - which) - Ok. Verdana8, but I increase DPI to 120. It's not make dialog boxes too huge, altough changes position of some lines, so I satisfied anywhere. Thanks.