Zoom Input Fields

Hi!

My problem sometimes is, i'm to old. No! When i enter RegEx's in the Rename File Dialog, it makes me crazy to read all the (^((./+$..())()(/(//.) - (No, its no valid RegEx, i think :slight_smile:

My idea. Implement a zoom function over the context menu for each field. When selected, a dialog pops up in which i can enter text. The font and textsize for these dialogs are user definable and can be upsetted in the options dialog and are stored.

The dialog should be resizeable where the input field resizes with it. If i entered text in the unzoomed field before, these text is overtaken to the zoom dialog. Initially, when text is overtaken from input field, the text in the zoom dialog is not selected! There a 2 buttons. OK & (Abort | Cancel)

Position and size of the dialog must be stored.

That would be great! A step further to the perfect program!

Greetings

Not sure but I think the Control Panel -> Display -> Appearance -> Font Size setting should affect the font size in the dialog (and all dialogs).

An alternative is to have a text editor, set to use large fonts, ready to open via a hotkey or something like the Quick-Launch toolbar, so you can quickly copy the field's text, click open the text editor, paste the text, view and edit it, then copy it back to the field. (I do this fairly often with web forms that are too small. I find it works quite well, especially with a mouse-button bound to "close window" (Alt-F4) so that I can quickly close the text editor when I'm done with it.)

Hi nudel,

Sure, but this affects all dialogs systemwide. That's not what i want. I have a 1600x1200 resolution on a 22" crt. The text is in most cases very good readable. But RegEx's are fast difficult to read in the normal text size. MS Access also has such a feature for defining SQL's. They are knowing why :smiley:

I agree, but this is just a hmmm, workaround. But with your suggestion i loose the mighty functionality of the preview of the resulting RegEx, which is very helpful for defining new rules! OK, i didn't mentioned this it in my initial post :blush:, that the realtime preview function should work also in zoomed dialog as when i typed into the normal input field. Furthermore, the basic functionality of all the input fields must also exist in the zoom dialog.

Greetings