VS2012: Incremental search buttons all broken?

Question

Hi there,

I'm running VS2012 on a VB.NET project. I've been playing with the new incremental search feature, and I've got a question. After pressing Ctrl+I (when the window pops up in the upper righit region of the code view), if you press any of the buttons (for example, the 'find next" arrow, or the menu dropdown next to it, the incremental search view completely disapears. Are these buttons never intended to be clicked?? If so, why are they visible?

Thanks...

-Ben

Answer 1

Hi Ben,

Nice to see you.

I haven't reproduce this scenario.

Would you like to make a picture to illustrate this issue more clearer?

Thank you.

Best regards,

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Mike Feng
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Answer 2

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your help. To reproduce, be in a code editing view. For me, I'm editing VB.NET code. Then, hit Ctrl + I on the keyboard to get the incremental search view. (See the screenshot.)

Now, click on the downward pointing triangle, just next to the rightward pointing arrow. One would expect a menu to drop down, but instead, the find view simply disapears.

-Ben

Answer 3

Hi Ben,

I have tried this in VS2012 RTM version, but failed to reproduce this.

Best regards,

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Answer 4

Hi Mike,

Can you confirm the steps you took and the result you got?

Thanks...

-Ben

Answer 5

Hi Ben,

First of all, my VS version is RTM Rel.

1. I pressed Ctrl + I, VS didn't pop up the dialog, instead, I pressed Ctrl+F.

2. I clicked the arrow 1, it is fine.

3. To get the next find, I tried Ctrl+I, it didn't work, it just keep still, didn't go to the next find, so I pressed F3, it is fine.

4. I clicked the arrow 2, it is also fine.

Best regards,

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Answer 6

Hi Mike,

The find box you are interacting with is not the same one I am. Even looking at the screenshots you can see that the boxes are not the same. For example, yours has two rows, while mine has one. If I press Ctrl+F, I get the same two-row box as you, and interacting with it works fine.

I think the question at this point is, why is it that Ctrl+I doesn't bring up the incremental search box for you? Perhaps you've customized your key mappings? Could you ask a colleague to try these steps? I wouldn't think it would be that hard to bring up the incremental search window.

Thanks...

-Ben

Answer 7

Hi Ben,

The short-key is different on my side:

Anyway, I reproduced your scenario.

Now I suggest you submit it on the connect site: https://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio 

When you finished, please post the link here, so we can follow it well.

Thank you.

Best regards,

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Mike Feng
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Answer 8

Thanks Mike...

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/764540/incremental-search-window-clicking-on-any-menu-exits-window-immediately

-Ben