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Bug search window keeps sticking

Discussion in '2021.2 Beta' started by laurentlavigne, May 22, 2021.

  1. laurentlavigne

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    previously when clicking outside the search window it would close, which is the perfect behavior that's been battle tested in MacOS
    Now the search window appears and stays onscreen because it is now a tab.
    The problem are multiple and have been discussed at length with zero feedback from the product team.
    I'm ready to change my ways if they improve workflow and thus far they impede it.
    So what's the reasoning behind that?
     
    laurentlavigne, May 22, 2021
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    laurentlavigne, May 22, 2021
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  3. jonathans42

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    Yes that is the new design. Here's a few options:
    1- ESC will close the tab
    2- Double clicking/Executing an item will close the window.

    So in your case you preferred when the Window was an auxiliary popup that was discard once focus leaves the window (like in QuickSearch ~1.5)?

    We can easily bring back that mode if want. Actually it is still there with a bit of magic (code). I can share that code snippet if you want to bind it to you preferred shortcut.
     
    jonathans42, May 28, 2021
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  4. laurentlavigne

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    Sure that would be cool
    Riddle me this: why don't you add a little pin tac ? it's been done for 2 decades and is a standard people automatically recognize. Everybody wins.
     
    laurentlavigne, May 28, 2021
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  5. jonathans42

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    We will add a new transient way of popping the window, mean while you can do:

    Code (CSharp):
    1.  
    2. [MenuItem("Window/Search/Transient Window", priority = 1)]
    3. public static void OpenPopupWindow()
    4. {
    5.    SearchService.ShowWindow(defaultWidth: 600, defaultHeight: 400, dockable: false);
    6. }
    7.  
    upload_2021-5-31_13-39-28.png


    upload_2021-5-31_13-39-51.png

    Clicking outside the window will close the popup/auxiliary window.

    You might now have the black border depending on the version you are at.

    Thanks,
     
    jonathans42, May 31, 2021
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  6. laurentlavigne

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    Perfect, thank you and wow window size, that's a nice level of customization!
    Does that transient flag exist for other windows like the inspector?
     
    laurentlavigne, May 31, 2021
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  8. Peter77

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    I could certainly use it for my own tools too. Would be useful if you can expose this functionality to the EditorWindow API.
     
    Peter77, Jun 1, 2021
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  9. Ruchir

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    This would be ideal IMO
     
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  10. Ruchir

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    Yeah, they would be certainly helpful for things like full scene view workflows, like Peek has for scene view editors, and are pretty great.
     
    Ruchir, Jun 1, 2021
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  11. laurentlavigne

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    I did it and it works well. But that button triggers the old one and I keep pressing it by mistake, might as well be useful, how do I change its function?

    Wow! an API for search? this is very cool. Hopefully we see that for every other part of the unity editor. And a command log mode for the console so we can copy paste the commands that are called internally, like in Maya
    what is an example of multiselect? what is context? the doc could use more words to explain that.
     
    laurentlavigne, Jun 1, 2021
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