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Bug 33931 - Document popup search in explorer
Summary: Document popup search in explorer
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Explorer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jaroslav Tulach
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks: 33932
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Reported: 2003-05-27 15:00 UTC by Lukas Hasik
Modified: 2012-02-22 22:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: TASK
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Description Lukas Hasik 2003-05-27 15:00:42 UTC 
The behaviour of find-fast (typing) feature in
Explorer isn't documented.
Comment 1 Lukas Hasik 2004-01-14 10:09:26 UTC 
popup search spec:

- User is focused in the TTV (Explorer, Property sheet).
- User will start to write/type a character.
- Popup textfield will appear and characters will be visible in that 
  Textfield area.
- TTV will automatically scroll to the node that matches these written
characters(pattern).
- arrow up/down moves selection only on nodes matching the pattern.
- when last character is deleted from pattern by Backspace then the
first occurence of 'new' pattern from top is selected.
- By  ESC key press that popup disappears.
- Last automatically selected node stay selected.


assigning Jesse to comment.

Jiri, is this ok ?
Comment 2 Jiri Rechtacek 2004-01-14 10:20:38 UTC 
Thanks a lot, Lukas.
Only small corections:
- User is focuse in TreeView (not in TreeTableView aka TTV),
- if search popup is opened then a TAB press fills in the longest
possible prefix of all matched nodes
Comment 3 Lukas Hasik 2004-01-14 14:41:08 UTC 
-popup search works only on expanded nodes in Explorer
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2004-01-14 15:56:34 UTC 
1. TAB does not do anything in the popup search window for me; I was
not aware it ever did.

2. The popup search feature works in all TreeView's AFAIK, not just
the Explorer. But yes, it only works on expanded nodes. (Which is a
bit of a bug - if some nodes are still expanding and you start typing
too soon, it will fail to find things that are not yet there.
TV.ET.doSearch should be using getNodes(true) I suppose.)
Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2004-02-04 16:48:11 UTC 
Aha, TAB does do something, but it is broken. It completes the code
name, rather than the display name; and the code name may be missing,
or completely irrelevant to the user. I will fix this; it looks easy.
Comment 6 Jiri Rechtacek 2004-04-23 10:45:51 UTC 
Assigned to new owner.
Comment 7 David Simonek 2005-12-20 13:27:38 UTC 
Isn't this obsolete? Please close if it is.
Comment 8 Lukas Hasik 2005-12-20 13:33:03 UTC 
is the behaviour of QuickSearch documented?
+ publish the link here and close bug
- document it and then publish the link here and close bug

;)
Comment 9 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2008-02-07 16:08:46 UTC 
Reassigning to new module owner Tomas Holy.
Comment 10 t_h 2008-10-20 10:00:37 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 56256 ***
Comment 11 Jesse Glick 2008-11-07 02:37:20 UTC 
Nothing to do with the issue it was marked duplicate of, please reevaluate.
Comment 12 Jaroslav Tulach 2010-04-04 13:59:07 UTC 
OK, closing, as I have little clue what else shall be done.
Comment 13 deep_pl 2012-02-22 09:29:25 UTC 
Sorry for a comment after such a long time since the last post.
There is a need to insert into search pattern "*" or "%" will which represent any characters.
Comment 14 Jesse Glick 2012-02-22 22:43:37 UTC 
If I understand what deep_pl is asking for, it would be an RFE in this component but otherwise unrelated to this issue (whatever this was).