Keep the Select Lines dialog open when no lines match - #680
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Pressing OK closed the dialog unconditionally, even when the search matched nothing (or an add/subtract/intersect changed no lines), right after a message box told the user so. Only close it when the action actually changed the selection, so the user can adjust the criteria without reopening the dialog. Fixes TypesettingTools#349
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If you could say more about your workflow on the issue itself that motivated this, that'd be much appreciated. I'm not clear whether this is a change worth making or something else related to this flow needs to be thought through, so more information would be helpful. |
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The main motivation is just improving the day-to-day experience of using "Subtitle > Select Lines...": it's easy to make a typo or leave the wrong field/option selected, get 0 matches back, and have the dialog close itself on you. Having to reopen it from the menu and re-enter everything from scratch (text, field, mode, case sensitivity) every time that happens gets frustrating and annoying pretty fast, especially if you're iterating on a search. The linked issue (#349) describes this exact case and is what led me to it, but I'd frame it as UX polish rather than a fix for a specific broken behavior. The change is scoped narrowly: |
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Hi @MawCeron please reply to these threads yourself rather than having an agent do it. I'm not very interested in reading an agent's made-up description of a workflow. |
Summary
DialogSelection::Processclosed the dialog unconditionally on OK, even when the search/action changed nothing (count == 0) — right after showing a message box saying so. That forced the user to reopen the dialog and redo the search from scratch after any typo or unchecked option.(Reopens #679, closed only because the branch's commit needed its authorship fixed — same change, no functional difference.)
Fixes #349
Test plan
src/dialog_selection.cppto confirmcountis 0 exactly when the message box reports no lines were set/added/removed, for everyActionbranch (SET/ADD/SUB/INTERSECT).