Open search dialog with activated search field (v5.9)

ELAN
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In ELAN 5.9 (and maybe 5.8?), when I open a new search window to find something in a single ELAN file (I normally use the shortcut command+F), the search window opens, but I have to navigate the cursor to the icon “New (empty) query” and click on this first before the actual query interface is opened and I can add my search criteria.
At least until v5.7, the search window automatically opened with the “that matches…” field active, and using the mouse was not necessary.

Is there a setting somewhere to change this behavior? Or could future releases revert to the old behavior? I can’t really think of any reason not to automatically have the search field be visible and active, but maybe I’m missing something…

(Using ELAN 5.9 on Mac 10.14.6)

Josh

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I have this same complaint. The mouse use required in the new search behavior definitely slows things down for me. If there’s a good reason to keep this extra step, perhaps another keyboard shortcut could be added to activate the search bar instead of requiring a click?

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Thanks all for reporting, this change in behavior is unintended. There are a few issues in this search window (and in some other places) that seem to be the result of the move from Apple’s Java 6 to OpenJDK 11. The user interface sometimes behaves slightly different (not only on macOS, by the way). We have to look into these problems and see what we have to modify in the code to get the old behavior back.

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Thanks for looking into it!