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Cannot cancel a search once it is started #845

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 5 comments
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Cannot cancel a search once it is started #845

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 5 comments

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Reporter: shaunmcdonald131[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 11.29am, Friday, 18th April 2008]

When you start a search, there is no way to cancel it, other than to reload the page.

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.51pm, Friday, 18th April 2008]

That's HTTP for you... The best you could do is to pretend to cancel it (by ignoring the result when it comes back) but the server would still be doing the work.

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Author: shaunmcdonald131[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.14pm, Friday, 18th April 2008]

It is more a problem of the UI locking up, rather than anything else.

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.22pm, Friday, 18th April 2008]

The UI doesn't lock up does it? You probably can't initiate another search because the box will have vanished, but the UI in general should be fine.

The problem is a lack of screen real estate - that is why it reuses the space used by the search box for the search in progress indication but it also means there isn't really much space for a cancel button.

The same goes for an explicit search button which has been asked for several times and which is actually a more important issue to my mind.

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Author: shaunmcdonald131[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.08pm, Friday, 18th April 2008]

Your explaining the problem better than me. I think that adding that extra button will resolve this.

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.23am, Tuesday, 27th October 2009]

This is effectively solved by the async search - you can close the search results or start a new search while the previous one is running.

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