Click the search icon to preview results - which search icon?

[Timmmm]

Minor issue using 0.25.0-insiders2: I tried the new "Find All References..." function, and it starts "confirming" files (weird verb by the way - surely "processing" or "parsing" makes more sense?). Anyway I get this message:

Find All References: 171/176 files confirmed. Click the search icon to preview results.

I have no idea which "search icon" it is referring to. I tried a few and none of them showed me any preview results.

[michelleangela]

The "search icon" to preview results is on the right side of the status bar.

The preview results get displayed on the "REFERENCES:RESULTS" panel.

You can click on the "search icon" again to refresh the preview results. Once the search is complete, the results panel should auto update with the final results.

[sean-mcmanus]

Where do you see the verb "confirming"?

The VS Code UI APIs don't allow us to add buttons for commands to the progress UI -- if they fix that we could add a "Preview Results" button. We also can't show an image of the icon in the progress UI unless we use the Unicode search icon, which looks odd.

Is there a reason you didn't notice the search icon in the task bar?

[Timmmm]

Ah! I didn't look in the status bar.. I guess because I was expecting the button to preview the results to be near where the results are.

Anyway I guess you could just change it to "Click the search icon in the status bar to preview results." Dunno about "task bar". Maybe that's what it's called but I bet most users don't know that.

It isn't literalled "confirming" but "confirmed", as in "171/176 files confirmed".

[tokyophil]

I had the same problem. I tried the search icon on the left, which i usually use for searching. I did not expect another search icon to click and did not notice the one in the status bar.
Also, i clicked the settings icon, because i thought that maybe the settings icon in the message is representing the icon i should click... (see screenshot)

maybe a message like "Click the search icon in the status bar to preview results" would help others too.

[michelleangela]

Would it be helpful if the search icon is a different color so that it is more noticeable? Like the "flame" icon for IntelliSense parsing is red?