2.5. Dialogs

This section explains the behaviour of most of the dialogs that come up in GnomeCard. Those that are not documented here are either messages or "standard", like the Save As and Open dialogs.

2.5.1. Edit Dialog

You will get to this dialog when selecting "Edit Card" or "Add Card" from the toolbar, or Edit/Add Card or Edit/Card options from the menu bar.

This is the largest dialog of all, and the one that is used to add or modify data from the existing or new records in the addressbook. It is divided in several sections which cover the different types of data that a card can have. If the dialog came up to edit the data from an existing card, the used fields will be filled up with the card's data. You may add or modify any of the information presented. Otherwise, the dialog will come up empty, ready to receive all the information to be added.

2.5.2. Preferences Dialog

Some of the most complicated settings are presented here for the user to modify.

2.5.3. Find Dialog

The Find Dialog will make a pattern search starting from the current record on every field of every card and set the current record to the first one that matches the criteria. If the lookup reaches the top or the bottom of the list, GnomeCard will ask if the search should be continued.

Pattern matching is done using the typical shell wildcards. Check bash (1) under the "Pathname Expansion" subsection for a complete reference.

Case sensitiveness and direction of the search. If case sensitiveness is set on, "Rivas" won't match "rivas".