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Bug 30187 - Improve typeahead find functionality in TreeView
Summary: Improve typeahead find functionality in TreeView
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Explorer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: t_h
URL:
Keywords: A11Y, UI
: 56189 155375 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 153331
Blocks: 28244
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Reported: 2003-01-16 17:39 UTC by Jesse Glick
Modified: 2010-04-16 13:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Jesse Glick 2003-01-16 17:39:08 UTC 
Currently TreeView's typeahead find functionality
is very nice, but it is not quite as good as
Mozilla's link searching (1.2.1).

1. Mozilla lets you type any substring of a link.
NB forces you to type a prefix. If you have a lot
of nodes starting with the same text this is
annoying. I want to glance at the desired node,
see something distinctive, type it, go there.

2. Mozilla lets you press Ctrl-G after matching a
link to cycle to the next match (given the
currently typed substring). NB forces you to
continue typing enough so that the first match is
the desired one, which can take a lot longer if
there is a long common prefix.

Suggest NB be brought up to par with Mozilla on
these two points.
Comment 1 Jiri Rechtacek 2003-01-17 09:34:19 UTC 
add 1. It's possible use TAB key to complete to the longest shared
prefix to improve usability.

add 2. nb allows cycling by the cursor keys over the nodes with given
prefix.
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2003-01-17 14:52:25 UTC 
Re. #2 - you're right, I hadn't noticed this. It works fine.

Re. #1 - TAB completion would be helpful, though I still think
substring searching would be even better. I use Mozilla every day and
its typeahead find functionality works very well in practice, so I
don't see any reason to do it differently.
Comment 3 Jiri Rechtacek 2004-04-23 10:45:20 UTC 
Assigned to new owner.
Comment 4 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2008-02-07 16:01:40 UTC 
Reassigning to new module owner Tomas Holy.
Comment 5 t_h 2008-10-20 13:03:27 UTC 
*** Issue 56189 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 t_h 2008-10-23 13:40:31 UTC 
Substring searching in Quick Search was already implemented some time ago. I just enable it for common tree views.
5e7bd2316d90
Comment 7 Quality Engineering 2008-10-24 04:19:59 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200810240201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/5e7bd2316d90
User: Tomas Holy <t_h@netbeans.org>
Log: #30187: Improve typeahead find functionality in TreeView
Comment 8 Quality Engineering 2008-11-05 04:35:53 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200811050201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/785bba143f33
User: Tomas Holy <t_h@netbeans.org>
Log: #30187: Enabling substring search for TreeView in ElementSelectorPanel
Comment 9 matusdekanek 2008-11-21 09:39:36 UTC 
works fine
verifying
Comment 10 t_h 2009-01-07 15:13:01 UTC 
*** Issue 155375 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 Jesse Glick 2010-04-16 13:49:49 UTC 
*** Bug 184321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***