When searching Preferences, there used to be a quick gray animation to focus the user in the search result. The Preferences page still opens where the search result is at, but the focus animation has now been gone for a while (perhaps since 5.0?). Because of this I have to read through all preferences on the page that opens, so it slows things down quite a bit.
The issue is present in freshly installed Reaper 5.12 (32-bit) (and 5.15pre5 32-bit) on a
MacBook Pro 15" 2010 running OSX 10.11.2 El Capitan.
(I renamed ~/Library/Application Support/REAPER and ~/Library/Preferences/com.cockos.reaper.plist before launching Reaper and testing again.)
Instead of bringing back the old catch-me-if-you-can behavior, I suggest that when searching:
- The visible preferences page would get an overall darker tint.
- All search results on that page would remain lighter, un-tinted.
- The active result (that changes when clicking "Find") would have a very slight yellowish hue.
- These tints would stay there until the search field is cleared or edited.
Please see my beautiful hand-made rendering of this idea below. It would completely revolutionalize searching the preferences, which is after all an oft-used feature, since the preferences are rather numerous.
Preferences' search results' focus
Linear Mode
