I prefer the old method of displaying Find results (textual list rather than a tree control). Can you please add an option to toggle this on/off as the default, rather than me having to right-click and set it each time JCreator has been reloaded.
It just takes too long to expand stuff of relevance in the tree view. With the old listing view your eye can scan the results quickly for items of interest. IMHO of course.
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Option To Make Text-view Search The Default
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imilne
, Nov 06 2007 09:07 AM
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Posted 06 November 2007 - 02:38 PM
QUOTE(imilne @ Nov 6 2007, 09:07 AM) 
I prefer the old method of displaying Find results (textual list rather than a tree control). Can you please add an option to toggle this on/off as the default, rather than me having to right-click and set it each time JCreator has been reloaded.
It just takes too long to expand stuff of relevance in the tree view. With the old listing view your eye can scan the results quickly for items of interest. IMHO of course.
It just takes too long to expand stuff of relevance in the tree view. With the old listing view your eye can scan the results quickly for items of interest. IMHO of course.
It is still there as an option. Right click in the Find Results window, and click 'Text View'. This option is being saved between JCreator sessions, so you don't have to enable it each time. If this is not the case then make sure you have installed the latest version.
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Posted 06 November 2007 - 03:42 PM
QUOTE(xinox @ Nov 6 2007, 03:38 PM)
It is still there as an option. Right click in the Find Results window, and click 'Text View'. This option is being saved between JCreator sessions, so you don't have to enable it each time. If this is not the case then make sure you have installed the latest version.
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Nope, it never remembers between sessions for me. I'm running 4.50.009 - is that the latest?
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Posted 06 November 2007 - 04:08 PM
QUOTE(imilne @ Nov 6 2007, 03:42 PM)
Nope, it never remembers between sessions for me. I'm running 4.50.009 - is that the latest?
yes it is. Open the options window via the menu configure, click on the yellow-like icon on the botton left. Windows Explorer will open, click on the Options directory, make sure it has read/write access for JCreator and enough disk space.
Otherwise submit a bug report via http://www.jcreator.com/mailform/bugreport.htm
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Posted 07 November 2007 - 01:13 AM
I have discovered that computers at a school tend to not save the options JCreator 4.5 makes due to the fact that student logins are limited. Therefore, JCreator is probably unable to write the options back to the files they came from since the option files are inside the Program Files or All Users folder (although, if per-user options were enabled this might work since the options would be saved in the user's folder instead). This limitation is both good and bad. Good: no student can mess with the settings and expect it to stay that way the next time JCreator is opened. Bad: it is annoying if there is an option set that is not preferred and you must set it to whatever you want every time you start JCreator. The only way to make a change in the options permanent would be to log in as an administrator and change the settings. (manually editing the XML files might work too if you have access)
JCreator 3.5 had no problem on these limited logins since the options were saved to the registry. But I expect JCreator 4.0 would have had the same problem that 4.5 has on these computers.
So maybe you are logging in as a simple user on your computer instead of an administrator. If I am right, you may be able to fix this problem by reinstalling JCreator with the "save settings per user" option. Or have somebody log on as an administrator and change this tree option for you.
JCreator 3.5 had no problem on these limited logins since the options were saved to the registry. But I expect JCreator 4.0 would have had the same problem that 4.5 has on these computers.
So maybe you are logging in as a simple user on your computer instead of an administrator. If I am right, you may be able to fix this problem by reinstalling JCreator with the "save settings per user" option. Or have somebody log on as an administrator and change this tree option for you.
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Posted 07 November 2007 - 08:32 AM
QUOTE(xinox @ Nov 6 2007, 05:08 PM)
yes it is. Open the options window via the menu configure, click on the yellow-like icon on the botton left. Windows Explorer will open, click on the Options directory, make sure it has read/write access for JCreator and enough disk space.
Otherwise submit a bug report via http://www.jcreator.com/mailform/bugreport.htm
Otherwise submit a bug report via http://www.jcreator.com/mailform/bugreport.htm
The options folder (in explorer) had a green square (not a tick) inside its Read Only setting (not sure what the difference is between that and a tick). Clearing it has allowed the Find to show text results after a reload, but the box has instantly gone back to having a green square in it. Either it doesn't matter now, or I'll come across something else at a later date that isn't being saved.
I have admin privileges so that's not the problem. Running on XP Pro SP2.
