Edit/Repeat and Ability to minimize property box

goodwin2 · Post by **goodwin2** » 11 May 2009 05:11

Yes, I know the property box can now be squirrely sized any way you might want. And it can be floated. Both of these are REALLY great. With it floated and stretched out a lot, the focus window is obscured. Ability to minimize that box would be very useful.

An edit/repeat function would also be very useful. Yes I know 'copy and paste' but edit/repeat is faster.

Anyone also interested in the above?

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ChrisBowyer · Post by **ChrisBowyer** » 11 May 2009 06:37

I can't really see any benefit in being able to minimise the property box (presumably you mean to the windows task bar) as opposed to closing it and re-opening it from FH's toolbar, which is the same number of clicks, and seems to me a more natural place to find it.

Is your 'edit/repeat' the same as search and replace (reference 37)?

arishmell · Post by **arishmell** » 11 May 2009 10:32

I'd like not so much to minimise it as to be able to 'hide' one window behind the other by clicking on the inactive window or the taskbar. This is an instinctive action - I attempt to do this every time I use FH, and get pulled up by having to close the property box before I can see the Records Window.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 11 May 2009 10:37

Why not just set the property box to default to closed when you switch to the record window or any other window where you don't want it open by default.

arishmell · Post by **arishmell** » 11 May 2009 12:36

Jane said:
Why not just set the property box to default to closed when you switch to the record window or any other window where you don't want it open by default.

Because I don't WANT it closed! [smile] I'd just like to be able to see behind it, maybe to remind myself of some date or event in another individual's life by looking at a data column, and then immediately return to where I was in the property box. OK, I can pull the box around so I can scroll up and down the records window (and then pull it somewhere else so I can scroll across) but clicking on an inactive window to bring it forward is automatic - and it jars when it doesn't work in FH. Closing the box means having to refind the correct individual and then navigate through to the desired field all over again.

goodwin2 · Post by **goodwin2** » 12 May 2009 00:55

To Arishmell's point - I found that if I cascade the windows, I can access the records window; then access the property box of another individual and still have the focus window of my original person open. I can't have both boxes open at the same time but the property box has a 'go forward/go back arrow at the top. I can then switch between the two. Hey, just found that out!!!

Still would like to have the ability to minimize the property box [pretty much fully extended] so I can see the full focus window of my selected individual and go back and forth between the two.

To Chris' mention of: 'Is your 'edit/repeat' the same as search and replace (reference 37)?' Sorry, didn't find that reference 37. Not sure if they would function exactly the same but since we don't have either, one of them would be nice.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 12 May 2009 06:52

I simply dock the property box when on the records window and use the vertical divider to make it larger or smaller as needed.

ChrisBowyer · Post by **ChrisBowyer** » 13 May 2009 03:06

goodwin2 said:
To Chris' mention of: 'Is your 'edit/repeat' the same as search and replace (reference 37)?' Sorry, didn't find that reference 37. Not sure if they would function exactly the same but since we don't have either, one of them would be nice.

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