Why use SearchField on Windows?

[Dale_Arends]

Since the Windows version of the SearchField control can’t do the RecentItems popup magic, is there any reason to use the control (other than the nifty search icon in the field which can be done with a Unicode character)? Am I missing something or is it really just another TextField with a pretty name.

[anon20074439]

There’s very little point in using it if you’re staying on the windows platform other than it showing your users that you:

1. don’t use os’s standard focus in the control
2. don’t select text by default when tabbing between controls
3. don’t follow windows design guidelines
4. don’t place text in the correct vertical position in control
5. don’t actually draw your control to the size its designed (1 pixel out between design and run)

[Markus_Winter]

Another half-baked „solution“.

Same with the DateTime picker …

I‘d rather have less but properly working solutions.

[Ivan_Tellez]

@Martin_T

So I think the implementation is totally ok and I’m also glad that Xojo has used native controls.

That is just a bad excuse for this shameful control. The ugly icon is NOT native to windows

@Martin_T

To my knowledge there is even no native SearchField for Windows. So I think the implementation is totally ok and I’m also glad that Xojo has used native controls.

Windows DOES have a native SearchBox control:

Search Boxes - Win32 apps

If Xojo can’t implement it, at least they should mimic the Look and feel, icon to the right, use the OS native icon instead of that ugly imitation.

@Martin_T

And the fact that the look and functionality of the operating systems differ between the operating systems, lies in it of the nature.

And there is where Xojo looses all the point of marketing itself as X-plat. For that, they must implement the same functionality in all the platforms if the native control doesn’t have them.

@Markus_Winter

Another half-baked „solution“.
Same with the DateTime picker …

“Half baked” would mean at least usable

[Björn_Eiríksson]

There is small error above, Windows only has HIG for Search Control but they never actually made native control. Only the HIG on how you should make it look like.