gunterkoenigsmann
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5 months ago For short lists of short text pieces I not sure if regEx search has advantages over a normal text search, too, and see the same disadvantages as you do.
About the wxSearchCtrl I didn't know. But I would tell that with it's two buttons this control is too wide for a sidebar and I don't see the use case for adding these two buttons.
Is the missing tooltip just a missing SetTooltip() command?
These three sidebars have search boxes. In the history sidebar the 'tooltip' (that one can enter a regex) is not shown.
And maybe just using a regular wxWidgets search box (https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_search_ctrl.html) would be better? Yes, regular expressions are more powerful, but does a regular user use it?
One might remember, that one did enter something, where one squared a mathematical term - so search for "
^2"... Ah - no, in a regular expression "^" means the beginning of a line, so one must search for "\^2" to find that expression...