#1614 Find search bar not showing on safe opening when Password Safe closed with Find bar showing

[MrMe]

Resubmitting this bug report after further testing has confirmed for me that this feature is not working.

Per this (https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/feature-requests/909/) supposedly implemented and closed feature request, the Find search bar will be automatically shown/visible at the bottom left of the application window when Password Safe opened in R/W mode is exited/closed with the Find search bar showing, however this feature does not appear to be working in v3.68.

[MrMe]

This seems to still be a problem using v3.17.0pre

[MrMe]

Meant to say "This seems to still be a problem using v3.71.0pre"

[Rony Shapiro]

This works for me both in 3.70 snd 3.71pre.

Note that the state of the Find toolbar is kept in pwsafe.cfg. Perhaps this is a write access issue to that file?

[MrMe]

Ok. Will look more into it.

What's the string that should be in pwsafe.cfg file for this?

Thanks.

[Rony Shapiro]

"ShowFindToolBarOnOpen"
and/or
"FindToolBarActive"

[MrMe]

Hi Rony,

I found a manual solution to the Find Toolbar showing based on your suggestion, which I believe indicates that there is a bug.

Password Safe v3.70 and v3.71pre (and versions before these) added only the line <findtoolbaractive>1</findtoolbaractive> to the pwsafe.cfg file when the safe is closed with the Find toolbar active. However the Find toolbar does not automatically show on opening the safe with this line in the cfg file.

While trying various tests, in one test I added both lines <findtoolbaractive>1</findtoolbaractive> and <showfindtoolbaronopen>1</showfindtoolbaronopen> to my cfg file and with both lines the Find toolbar is shown on opening the safe.

I then manually added only the line <showfindtoolbaronopen>1</showfindtoolbaronopen> in the cfg file and with this the Find toolbar is also shown when the safe is opened. However, on closing the safe with the Find Toolbar showing, only the line <findtoolbaractive>1</findtoolbaractive> is automatically added to the cfg file, which as the first test shows, will not work to show the Find toolbar on safe opening. So I believe the bug is either that both FindToolBarActive and ShowFindToolBarOnOpen or only ShowFindToolBarOnOpen should be added to the pwsafe.cfg for the feature to work like it used to.

Thanks.

[MrMe]

Hi Rony,

Hoping you are able to confirm now that there is a bug here and it get's fixed in next version.

The bug is that though the line <findtoolbaractive>1 </findtoolbaractive> is added to the cfg file when Password Safe is closed with Find toolbar active, the Find toolbar does not show when a safe is open. This behavior is consistent on more than one windows device I have Password Safe installed on. If <showfindtoolbaronopen>1</showfindtoolbaronopen> is written to the cfg file, it fixes the problem.