How to format a search field in Desktop

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Apparently (according to docs), you can’t change the search field font, color, border, etc. in a Desktop app. Hope I’m wrong.

Anybody know why I should use a search field over a regular text field? Besides how it’s supposed to automatically link up with a results box using DBKit (which doesn’t work for me anyway).

Thanks

fritz

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We just accept some limitations over the way we can style controls when we use the Xojo framework. If you want complete control over the look, you’ll need to use a workaround of some kind. (There are many, if you would like suggestions for those just ask, I’m sure plenty of people can chime in!)

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As is often the case, Xojo SearchControl is just a bare minimum solution, but nothing more. If you need more, I can recommend Einhugur SearchControl by @Björn_Eiríksson. We’ve had very good experiences with it.

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I build my own using a container control, and throwing in a text field, a bevel button, a canvas (for the little cross to cancel) and a few lines of code. it was a good exercice !

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I have always used a text field for search to date. I used this search field because I was following a Xojo video tutorial and Geoff was using it. I just wondered if I was missing something about formatting. I am going back to the text field then.

Thank you all

fritz

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The search field is just a container drawing a background a border and icon with a regular borderless text field embeded. You can make a better custom control like that in a couple hours.

Sascha S answer aplies for DBKit too.