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Old 06-27-2022, 10:07 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
But then that would mean the users choice for the checkbox is not remembered. Not sure that's better. I can think of plenty of use cases for searching full library even when the main screen is restricted. For example, to check if there are books with mislabelled data.

The snippet search has to go through the full book text, sadly the sqlite fts engine doesnt seem store offsets of words in the text, which is why it is slow. But it only needs to search the matched book files, not the full library.
Fair 'nuff, helps to know what's going on under the covers.

Back to hidden windows. An undocked Quickview window stays on top if I give focus to the library list window, viz:

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I appreciate QV is a child window and TS is separate process (I can't Alt+Tab into QV)… but that may not be as obvious to some people.

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