Can't Edit Search Toolbar

Can't Edit Search Toolbar

When I want to search using control-F what I get is a blank blue bar at the top of the page. When I go into Appearances and click on the blue bar (what I normally do to edit a tool bar), it will NOT let me edit the tool bar by putting place to search for text on it.

However, when I highlight the search toolbar, then go into the toolbar tab, it will let move the location.

Also I do not find any mention of ia search toolbar in the standard tool bars on the toolbar tab. I don't know if this makes any difference or not.

I am using Windows XP Service Pack 3

Are you using a custom toolbar layout? If so, what happens when you switch to "Opera Standard"?

If you have a really customized toolbar layout, then if your toolbar.ini contains the section "[Find Text Toolbar.content]" what is under it? If it doesn't then maybe try adding this:

[Find Text Toolbar.content]
Platform Mac, Button0, S_CONTENT_BLOCK_DONE="Cancel,,,,"Speeddial Close""
Search, -12
Button1, S_SEARCH_PREV=Find Previous
Button2, S_SEARCH_NEXT=Find Next
NamedButton, MatchCase, D_FIND_TEXT_MATCH_CASE, , 12
Spacer1, , 8
NamedButton, WholeWord, D_FIND_TEXT_MATCH_WHOLE_WORD, , 12
Spacer2, 1
Label, ""
Spacer3, 1
Platform Windows-Unix-QNX, Button4, S_CONTENT_BLOCK_DONE="Cancel,,,,"Caption Close""

I don't have this section.

I have two different toolbar.ini sections
one in c:programfiles\opera\default
the other in c:programfiles\opera\ui

Which one should I modify?

I don't remember ever changing the find toolbar. Could this have happened because I upgraded from an earlier version? I've been using opera on this computer for 2 years as my primary brower (on different computers) since Opera 3.

Neither of those... you want to edit the one in your <a href="opera:about">profile</a> directory... and when I say "section" I mean within the INI file(s) themselves, not the name/path to the file.

Could this have happened because I upgraded from an earlier version?

Possible, but unlikely because anything that isn't in your custom toolbar.ini is just "default", so if the section was missing it wouldn't matter. The only thing I can think of other than a "bug" that would affect it, would be if the items somehow got removed from that section.

But, have you tried switching your toolbar to "Opera Standard" (Preferences - Advanced - Toolbars)... if that works, then it's a config problem... if it doesn't work, then it's a bug (or some other major problem).

Well it's been an interesting afternoon, but it still doesn't work.

After exiting Opera, I placed a file toolbar.ini in my profile directory that included the text you suggested. I then rebooted. I still get a blue bar with no text at the top of the window. I still cannot exit the blue bar.

At one point before I did this, I tried modifying the toolbar to Opera standard in Preferences -- Advanced -- Toolbars. While I have not modified the Find toolbar, I have modified other toolbars so actually have Opera standard (modified). I exited Opera and rebooted. I lost some -- if not all -- of the customized changes I'd made to the other toolbars but not their positioning. But for a few minutes, find worked on Control F.

Earlier today I downloaded updated skins to see if this was part of the problem since the skin I use is the same as when I was using Opera 9. Once Control F started working, I changed back to the old skin. Control F then stopped working. Since then, I have gone back to the new skin. Tried to go back to Opera standard, rebooted, etc. But still cannot bet Control F to work.

Any ideas what to try now?

P.S. I forgot to mention, there was no file toolbar.ini in my profile before I put the file there. I renamed the file I adapted from from standard_toolbar. ini. Should I try to rename the new file standard_toolbar.ini to see if this helps?

What Skin? Or is it the default one that came with 9.x? Even if the skin doesn't have the icons and such... the controls should still be there, especially the main [Find in page] box... and the words for the two options (but maybe not the checkboxes)... other than "blue bar" what is on the toolbar when it shows?

But... hmm... so it worked with default skin... and with standard toolbar?... basically, what exactly do you have to do to make it work? (like X = Y = ...your steps/order are a bit hard to follow)

If it <i>always</i> works with standard toolbar, and standard skin... then it's a skin issue, which means you have 3 options:
1. Complain to the creator of the skin, but if it's that old...might not happen.
2. Edit the skin yourself, and add the icons/config to it that the <i>Find Text Toolbar</i> needs to look proper.
3. Stop using that skin...lol

I can help with #2... there's only 5 icons on the bar... 2 of which should already be in the skin (Textbox, and Checkbox) the close one should be "Caption Close" which has been around since 9.x... but the Find Next/Prev... were only added in 10.5... so those would be missing from your skin (most likely, unless it's been updated since then)... "fixing" the skin is for the most part copy/paste between that skin and a skin that does work.

Originally posted by rb978c21:

P.S. I forgot...

the "standard_toolbar.ini" is the one that shows up as "Opera Standard (Modified)"... thats the one with your customizations... doesn't really matter what you name the files, could name them "this crap doesn't work.ini" aslong as you don't forget to save it as an INI...lol

What matters is which one is selected in Preferences - Advanced - Toolbars...

Unfortunately, I can't quite seem to recreate what I did. I may try some more this evening.

At this point, I'm thinking about waiting until 9.52 comes out and doing a "clean" install rather than an upgrade. In addition to the problem with find, I cannot access "enable TLS 1.2" through Advance:Network. Also when I right click on an image and ask Opera to open it in a new window, nothing happens. But if I copy the address from the picture into a new browser window, it opens.

I've spent part of the afternoon, fixing another of other things with network securiy protocals and enable HTTP 1.1 for proxy servers. This seems to have speeded things up.

But all together it leaves me thinking that it's time for a clean install will fix this and who knows what else. But wait for 10.52 which will hopefully fix a number of other issues.

Thanks for your help. If you have any more ideas, they would be appreciated. Meanwhile, I may try to install the "find" button in the address toolbar.