Search Result Window No Longer Opens

Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:38:45 GMT

guy038 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:38:45 GMT

Hi, @sylvester-bullitt, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

OMG ! I just forgot this trivial but simple method. Thus, whatever the contents of the section :

        
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Open your active config.xml file, with Microsoft notepad ( Do NOT use Notepad++ )
Delete all the lines in between
Change the 4 dimension attributes, L, R, T and B, to the value 200, giving, simply :

Save the modifications of the Config.xml file
Restart Notepad++

That’s all. Et voilà !

Remark : of course, this basic method hides all your previous visible panels, as well !

Cheers,

guy038

Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:49:59 GMT

guy038 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:49:59 GMT

Hi, @sylvester-bullitt, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

Thank you , Alan, for your kind words !

I, now, realize that , in order to, both :

Get a docked Find result panel to the bottom edge of the screen
Get a visible undocked Find result panel, in case of double-click on Find result title panel

we just have to follow the instructions, given for each solution !

Now, here is general method to clear up all the section. Note that this method :

Docks the Find Result panel to the bottom edge of the screen
Changes location and dimensions of the undocked Find Result panel to sensible values
Preserves all visible panels of the current N++ session

A Delete all elements
B Change the element as
C Note all the values N1, N2,… ,above 4, of the curr attibute of the remaining elements
D Delete all elements, if N is absent from set {N1, N2, ... Nn } AND greater than 4
E Delete all elements, if N is absent from set {N1, N2, ... Nn} AND greater than 4
F Keeps only ONE element and delete all others similar elements, if any
G Change the unique line as ( Empiric values ! )
H Change the value M, in elements , in order to represent the number of the elements N .... **, minus 1 unit



Save all the modifications of the config.xml configuration file



One example : Let’s suppose this initial  section, below :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

After action A, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

After action B, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

After action C, the set of values, greater than 4, of the remaining curr attributes, is only {5}. So, if a cont attribute of an element is greater than 4 and different from 5, it must be deleted
Thus, after action D, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

And, after action E, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

After action F, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

After action G, we get :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

Finally, as it remains :

0 element , with curr="0" ( docked to the left edge ) => M = - 1
1 element , with curr="1" ( docked to the right edge ) => M = 0
0 element , with curr="2" ( docked to the top edge ) => M = -1
2 elements , with curr="3" ( docked to the bottom edge ) => M = 1
0 element , with curr="4" ( undocked windows ) => M = -1
1 element , with curr="5" ( undocked windows ) => M = 0

So, after action H, changing some  elements, we get the updated section, below :
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

Best Regards,
guy038
P.S. :
You may, either, harmonize the width of the left and right panels, as well as the height of the top and bottom panels, changing the first line :
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Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:42:25 GMT
Alan Kilborn — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:42:25 GMT
@guy038
I tried your first method, since the second method had a stated drawback…and it worked for me to restore the functionality I should have had with the Find result window!  Nice.  Thank you.
Also, I had several other floating window entries with cont values of 4, 5, 6, and 7 (sometimes several of each).  I couldn’t think of any other things that would be using those, so I deleted them as well.
Maybe (because you are an admin) you want to add a note in this locked posting to point here, for people seeking help in the future?
Thanks again!!



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:22:22 GMT
guy038 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:22:22 GMT
@sylvester-bullitt, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,
Let’s assume that, after a search process, which opens the "Find result" panel, you cannot see this panel, on your screen !
Here are two work-arounds, in order to get things right !


With the first one, we re-define the location and dimensions of the undocked Find Result window


With the second one, we directly get the Find Result panel docked to the default bottom edge of the screen



First solution :


Close any instance of Notepad++


Identify your active config.xml configuration file. To that matter, refer to :


https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15740/faq-desk-what-is-appdata


Open the config.xml file with Microsoft notepad ( Do NOT use Notepad++ )


In the  section, you should notice one or several element(s), like below, with value 4 for the cont attribute





Keeps only one line , deleting all the others, if any


Change the values X, Y, W and H, of that line, by the values :


 ( empiric values ! )


Save the modifications of Config.xml


Restart Notepad++


Run a search, using, for instance, the Find All in Current Document


=> This time, you should notice the undocked Find  result panel, giving you the possibility of docking it to its default location : the bottom edge ;-))

Second solution :


Close any instance of Notepad++


Open the config.xml file with Microsoft notepad ( Do NOT use Notepad++ )


Near the end of the   section of the config.xml file, there are, at least, five  elements, like below :



Which recapitulates the number of plugins, docked to each side of the screen or undocked, with the value N of the cont attribute = :

0 for panel(s) docked on the left        edge
1 for panel(s) docked on the right     edge
2 for panel(s) docked on the top        edge
3 for panel(s) docked on the bottom edge
4 for undocked panel(s)

and the value M of the activeTab attribute = :

-1 if no plugins is   docked on the corresponding edge
0   if 1 plugin is      docked on the corresponding edge
1   if 2 plugins are docked on the corresponding edge
2   if 3 plugins are docked on the corresponding edge
3   if 4 plugins are docked on the corresponding edge

and so on…
On the other hand, always in the  section, you should notice the line, below, with the attribute id="0" :


Change this line as :





Increase,  by one unit, the M1 value of the activeTab attibute of the element 


Decrease,  by one unit, the M2 value of the activeTab attibute of the element 


Save the modifications of the Config.xml configuration file


Restart Notepad++


Run a search, using, for instance, the Find All in Current Document


=> This time, you should see the Find  result panel at its default position ( docked to the bottom edge of the screen )

For instance, if you have the lines :
            
            

change the lines as below :
            
            

Remark : The drawback of this second solution, is that, if you double-click on the title of the Find Result panel, to get it undocked, you should get the previous invisible undocked window, again !
Best Regards,
guy038



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:43:33 GMT
Sylvester Bullitt — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:43:33 GMT
@PeterJones Apparently not, I don’t see a tools menu option anywhere.



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:40:28 GMT
Alan Kilborn — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:40:28 GMT
Semi-interesting related story to this:
I was playing around recently with undocking windows and so I had double-clicked my Find results tab that, shared with Pythonscript’s console window, typically shares the bottom area of my Notepad++ window.  The tab undocked, leaving only the PS console, but it could not be viewed anywhere.  (This is why the link I provided earlier was fresh in my mind).
Anyway, the window that should now be “floating” simply wasn’t anywhere.  I did a Find-All-Curr-Doc search to give the invisible window input focus, then did an alt-space to drop its system menu and it appeared on the far right of my right-most monitor.  I selected Move and then held down the left arrow key, thinking that the window should move into view.  Well, I held down the left arrow for quite some time and no window ever showed up.
I gave up and restored my configuration from a recent backup, and my window was back in its usual spot, but I was curious as to why I couldn’t get the window back in any other way.  I experimented further, recreating the bad situation and then doing a config.xml compare of the docked and undocked case, thinking I might solve the problem by some creative editing, but it either wasn’t clear how to edit it, or what I tried didn’t work.
So…I will just leave my search results docked because that is where I normally want it.  BUT…I can see the utility of occasionally wanting to undock that window and have the N++ main window on one monitor and a large version of the search results on a second monitor.  As for now, I can’t achieve that. :-(



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:26:34 GMT
PeterJones — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:26:34 GMT
@Sylvester-Bullitt said in Search Result Window No Longer Opens:
Glad you solved your main problem.  (Alan’s link was one I had been thinking of linking, too)

I don’t see  way to mark this question as “answered.”

I haven’t started a new question since the forum update, but it used to be that the author of the question (you) would have a Tools pulldown.  One of the options was something like “Mark as question”; after you do that, the pulldown changed to have “Mark as answered” or similar.  I don’t know if those tools still exist.



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:21:12 GMT
Alan Kilborn — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:21:12 GMT
Perhaps this is also of some interest in this matter.



Reply to Search Result Window No Longer Opens on Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:15:03 GMT
Sylvester Bullitt — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:15:03 GMT
I just found the answer. Somehow the result window’s top border was slid all the way down to the bottom of the app window. I only noticed this when my mouse happened to hover over the bottom border, and the mouse pointer changed to a 2-headed arrow which told me I could try dragging. So I dragged the border up, and the result window magically appeared!
Don’t know how the result window shrank in the first place. Slip of the mouse, I guess. But the app should be smart enough to detect this and tell the user (or warn him when he next tries to search).
(I don’t see  way to mark this question as “answered.” Maybe it should stick around for a while in case anyone else has a similar problem.