#295 Alert box fatigue: "Regular expression is not applicable for the selected content (no matches found)."

[Mike Oxlong]

When creating or modifying an Item, under "Content", if you check "Use tag" and "RegEx" within the Start tag group box for example and start typing out the Regular expression or pasting into the edit box a Regular expression that doesn't match and needs slight alteration every keypress, insertion of character or deletion of character pops up the alert nag. It will continue to nag after every keypress until the RegEx contains a match from the content. I think it's enough that the editbox colors the text red in the event of no match.

I think a better way to handle of displaying that nag would be if someone had an improper regular expression that didn't match the content (displayed in red) and tried clicking "OK" or "OK (Keep GUID)" it would alert the user, then auto-select the improper regular expression (displayed in red) or bring focus to that edit box.

[Gitoffthelawn]

When creating or modifying an Item, under "Content", if you check "Use tag" and "RegEx" within the Start tag group box for example and start typing out the Regular expression or pasting into the edit box a Regular expression that doesn't match and needs slight alteration every keypress, insertion of character or deletion of character pops up the alert nag. It will continue to nag after every keypress until the RegEx contains a match from the content. I think it's enough that the editbox colors the text red in the event of no match.

Yes, this is a definitely an annoyance.

I think a better way to handle of displaying that nag would be if someone had an improper regular expression that didn't match the content (displayed in red) and tried clicking "OK" or "OK (Keep GUID)" it would alert the user, then auto-select the improper regular expression (displayed in red) or bring focus to that edit box.

I think that's a reasonable solution.

[Morten MacFly]

Yeah, I never noticed the message appears several times. The reason is that the colouring is updated immediately so you can see if you grabbed the right phrase. I will think about a way how t handle this, e.g. one option would be to do this on the "lost focus" event, i.e. when you leave the textbox instead, while typing.

[Morten MacFly]

Implemented / improved in SVN [r1967] . Closing.