n00b question: why results window never updates in slow (substring) search mode?

[jhooly]

• Mint 19 Cinnamon 3.8.9, kernel 4.15.0-36.
• installed as expected.
• have run Update several times (with and without fast search UN-selected)
• verified that ~/.cache/angrysearch/angry_database.db is present (98.9M).

in slow mode, regardless of what i put in the search bar, no results. the results list doesn't change from the pre-search list of folders, etc (see attached). don't even get the results that i do get in fast search.

fwiw Regex mode doesn't seem to work either. the bar goes orange but again no updates in the search results box.

any ideas why?

[Rosika2]

Hi.
I experience the same issue as jhooly.
I run angrysearch in 2 virtual machines (xubuntu and bodhi_linux, both 32 bit).
Plus I use the programme by starting the command ./angrysearch.py from the respective
folder.
It says:

angrysearch.py file alone is all that is needed for full functionality. But no special icons or dark theme.

So I didn´t have to install it the usual way.
And it works fine except substring and regex-mode.

Greetings
Rosika

P.S.:
additional info from terminal when running substring-mode:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./angrysearch.py", line 91, in run
    self.words_quoted)
TypeError: ThreadDBQuery.db_query_signal[str, list, list].emit(): argument 3 has unexpected type 'NoneType'

[auduner]

Same problem here. This is not usable for me, as I need substring all the time.

[narf222]

this issue is 3 years old but i still get it. as soon as i uncheck the substring search i don't get any results and the screen stays as it is when i start the tool.

i'm using v1.0.3 with linux mint.