search bar

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What about if the search bar was always available on the top? It would make it 
faster and easier to look up a new word without going back all the time. Also, 
if the currently shown word is still visible in the search bar, changing the 
search text just a little would be easy too.

Thank you for you great work!

Kind regards,
Eva

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 43pup...@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2014 at 4:01

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Hi Eva, thank you for your suggestions. I agree that the persistent search bar 
may be very handy - I think that JED has this persistent search bar and JED is 
indeed very successful. The problem is that the search bar is only one of four 
possible means of finding stuff. Let's assume that the search bar will only 
allow searching for text entered, and the SKIP/drawing/Parts search will be 
accessible via menu. What if you would like to change some search parameters, 
e.g. starts-with, ends-with, find in example sentences - this would 
re-duplicate all of the controls in all of the activities. Also, this would 
diminish the importance of the search activity as the search functionality is 
duplicated everywhere, and I think that the navigability throughout Aedict may 
suffer.

So, I think that perhaps the current status is perhaps better. Instead of going 
back, you can configure Aedict to prefill Omnisearch box with Last search 
string (via Settings / GUI Tuning / Pre-fill Omnisearch), and then just click 
the upper-left navigation menu and click first item "Word Search" to quickly 
navigate into the search activity, which is now pre-filled with your last 
search.

Please let me know if this solution is acceptable for you.

Original comment by martin.v...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2014 at 2:29

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Perhaps you are right and the word search is somewhat special. Perhaps I will 
include a search bar after all, at least to some activities (most notably the 
Entry Detail activity).

Original comment by martin.v...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2014 at 12:05

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Added the search bar to ResultActivity and EntryActivity, let's see how this 
idea will work. If this proves useful, I can add this search bar to other 
activities as well, based on user requests.

Original comment by martin.v...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2014 at 7:22

• Changed state: Fixed

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Oh wow, thank you very much! Looking forward to using it!

Am 05.09.2014 04:22 schrieb <aedict@googlecode.com>:

this idea will work. If this proves useful, I can add this search bar to
other activities as well, based on user requests.

Original comment by 43pup...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2014 at 11:47