Weird 'Find Window' situation with search text box

[big_guitar]

Has anyone seen this issue where the “Find what:” text box stretches all the way across the Find window? It’s been happening to me for many versions (now on 8.6.2), but it doesn’t display like this right away, only after time with the current session. If I close NP++ completely and restart the app, it’s fine again at first (but not for good). I’m often going back and forth between normal/extended/regex searches, not sure if that’s relevant. Thank you!

[Alan Kilborn]

@big_guitar

I’ve never observed that. What happens if you resize the window horizontally, anything?

[mkupper]

@big_guitar,

I recall seeing the same thing that you are experiencing. It was a long time ago and was one of those glitches that as it was not too disruptive I ignored at the time. I checked my own notes and can’t find any notes to myself about it either.

Can you post your ? / Debug info data?

I noticed your find box has square corners and background filled buttons leading me to wonder what operating system you are using.

Down in the lower right corner of the find box is a button with ^ in it. Click than and click the resulting V. Does this fix the width of the find field?

To help reproduce - in your config.xml file is a <FindHistory ...> section containing

<Find name="stuff you searched for" />
<Find name="stuff you searched for" />
<Find name="stuff you searched for" />
...

Do any of those seem unusual and would have triggered the behavior you saw? If you need to post the contents of a <find ...> that looks interesting to the forums then put backticks (`) before and after so them when posting.

[big_guitar]

@Alan-Kilborn
yeah, I tried resizing the Find window many times past & present, no difference, but if I kill the program and restart it, it’s ok for a bit.

[big_guitar]

@mkupper

I’m just running Windows 10 Pro currently… Yes I think I’ve encountered this issue going back some time.

No, toggling that shrink/restore button in the lower right has no impact, tried that many times historically.

There doesn’t seem to be a command line to run in debug mode according to --help, not sure what your asking about regarding ‘debug info’…

I do perform a lot of “Find all in current document”, but other than that,
I’m not convinced that it’s about the content of what I’m searching for…
but I see that config file is under the AppData\Roaming

I usually leave the Find window in a transparency mode, and it will be fine, I’ll use other apps, and just one of the times I navigate back to NP++ and reactivate ‘Find’ (or CTRL-F), it displays with the issue all of a sudden prior to my next search…

    <FindHistory nbMaxFindHistoryPath="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFilter="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFind="10" nbMaxFindHistoryReplace="10" matchWord="no" matchCase="yes" wrap="yes" directionDown="no" fifRecuisive="yes" fifInHiddenFolder="no" fifProjectPanel1="no" fifProjectPanel2="no" fifProjectPanel3="no" fifFilterFollowsDoc="no" fifFolderFollowsDoc="no" searchMode="2" transparencyMode="1" transparency="150" dotMatchesNewline="no" isSearch2ButtonsMode="no" regexBackward4PowerUser="no" bookmarkLine="yes" purge="no">
        <Filter name="" />
        <Find name="(r[1-5]_down_axis\s)(.*$)" />
        <Find name="mem" />
        <Find name=" trap\" />
        <Find name=" trap " />
        <Find name=' trap&quot;' />
        <Find name="start" />
        <Find name="trap=" />
        <Find name="evalcheck" />
        <Find name="mapping" />
        <Find name="video_hard" />
        <Replace name=' trap\n&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;13&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;12&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;18&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;17&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;8&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;7&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;4&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;5&quot;' />
        <Replace name='$1= &quot;10&quot;' />
    </FindHistory>

[mkupper]

@big_guitar said in Weird 'Find Window' situation with search text box:

regarding ‘debug info’…

I meant the ? at the right side of the main menu. Most Windows applications have the Help menu there. Notepad++ has always used ? instead of the word Help. Usually we’d say “Help / About” and in Notepad++ it’s “? / About”. Anyway, just above “? / About” is “? / Debug Info…” As you said you are using win 10 Pro I don’t think knowing the debug info would be helpful.

I found this comment by you to be interesting:

I usually leave the Find window in a transparency mode, and it will be fine, I’ll use other apps, and just one of the times I navigate back to NP++ and reactivate ‘Find’ (or CTRL-F), it displays with the issue all of a sudden prior to my next search…

From what I recall, I was seeing a similar thing. I’d switch away from Notepad++, do things for a while, switch back, and when I did Ctrl+F I’d get the wide find box field.

I tried recreating the issue without success though did discover that when on the Find field that Alt+Up or Down arrow is the same as clicking the V dropdown thing at the right side of the Find field. That may be useful to you if the situation happens again as then you can at least bring up the dropdown list though you can’t see the V thing.

[big_guitar]

Thanks for responding!

@mkupper said in Weird 'Find Window' situation with search text box:

Alt+Up or Down arrow is the same as clicking the V dropdown thing

I will try that just to see if it makes a difference, up to this point I just arrowed up/down (without ALT) through previous searches when the drop-down is no longer displayed (such as in my original post).

The debug info does show active plugins, which of course could be suspect, although I think the issue occurs even without using any plugins.

Plugins : 
    HexEditor (0.9.12)
    JsonTools (4.4)
    mimeTools (3)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppExport (0.4)
    XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

[Mark Olson]

@big_guitar
If you’re using JsonTools 4.4, you should upgrade to v6.1.1 or v7 even if it’s not responsible for your problem (and I seriously doubt it is).