[PATCH] Live Filter (Live Search) - Build for Win32 Users to test + comment on.

I've updated the diff on trac with my changes to your diff and below is a binary for win32 users to test.

Ideally I'd like to address the 3 points I posted on trac before it hits SVN, namely:

1. Skinnable highlighting.
2. Search on what the skin is displaying and/or on other fields?
3. Keyboard searching.

Here's the link to the updated diff against rev 14551:

http://trac.xbmc.org/attachment/ticket/4...ter-3.diff

And here's the executable + keymap.xml for win32 users to play with:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfile..._id=585323

Cheers,
Jonathan

Thanks jmarshall. I'll play with it tonight.

@bripeace, I just like to add that this will be a really great feature to have in XBMC!

The only thing I do not personally like about it is the name "Live Filter" that you have picked for the feature (as IMHO the "Live" part of the name could possibly be to easily confused with the LiveUSB/LiveCD Linux Live Distro we plan on releasing of XBMC), ...so may I suggest that you instead pick a other name, maybe something like "Adaptive Filter", "Adaptive Search", "Dynamic Filter", or "Dynamic Seach", or similar?

At the risk of sounding stupid... will this work with keyboards also? (that is not just they numeric keypad)

sho Wrote:At the risk of sounding stupid... will this work with keyboards also? (that is not just they numeric keypad)

That something we're planning on working in. It doesn't work right now but soon hopefully.

If you try the above executable, it does work on keyboards, albeit only emulating the remote. I mapped the number keys on the keyboard (ones across the top, not the numeric keypad) to the same actions as the remote, so those without a remote on their windows box can try it out and see what they think.

We need people testing it out to see their opinions. I'll chat with Jezz_X about hooking up some skinning mechanism for the real keyboard input later today.

Cheers,
Jonathan

I got keyboard searching working so it's coming along.

As for the name I don't really care what it's called for some reason I just started calling it Live Filtering. The technology would be called (for the numeric input) predictive text.

bripeace Wrote:As for the name I don't really care what it's called for some reason I just started calling it Live Filtering. The technology would be called (for the numeric input) predictive text.

Cool, so maybe "Predictive filter" or "Predictive search" then?

It's exactly the same functionality as the current Filter button, with a (much) improved UI.

No need for fancy names unless you wanna put it on a set of release notes. In this case "On the fly filtering" or something similar works for me. The predictive part only applies to input devices incapable of directly inputting text.

Cheers,
Jonathan

this is very cool... any chance there could be a text input bar across the top of the container? navigate to it, and just start entering text to have the display filtered.