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

Hmm, we don't have upload available - I'll email it to you, along with the (messy) code diffs.

Cheers,
Jonathan

hmm even though I'm subscribed to this thread I missed some of the new posts. I'm a bit confused on what exactly your proposing. I guess I'll find diffs if you post them somewhere and see, but a few things.

It's not just for when your at the top of some list. even of a list of 3 pages if your in the middle of the list it's quicker to just directly go to what you want in terms of typing on a remote (468) for house than to: figure out where you're at, what sort method is currently enabled, and where house would be based on that information. Further I use the filter mode when i am looking for a specific thing. I am trying to go to something very specific, i.e I know what i want. Now instead of scrolling through etc, I Just type in what i want. Whether that's on a keyboard or a remote. IF we're adding a differing type of input I can see what your saying, but it's sounding like there is some sort of change completely to the filter settings.

I just can't agree that it's quicker not to hit 2-4 buttons to find house than in a situation where there even 2 pages. Hell even if you have one. House could be the 4th thing down and it's already faster to type in hou/468. Also, less pages of information means less key collisions meaning less numbers to type. 468 matches only 2 things in my list of 61 items. On a page with about 10 items 2 keys would match most things very fast and would be as quicker than scrolling/paging to select in all but 4 cases (1st item (0), 2nd (1), 3rd (2) last (3)[pg-down])).

as for search being for a specific item. There is a lot more information to search there, including plots etc. That is extremely bulky for I would guess a large marjority of all people who want to just to watch a specific movie or show. Plus then you really get into whats the point of filtering if it's not to quickly search based on title or whatever label is currently the main one being used. I.E what pretty much everyone uses. And certainly seems out of scope for all this.

We're not really proposing completely scrapping the idea - the key is to make something that works well for all users.

What's currently in SVN is:

1. Live searching (edit control on the left) for music. For remote users it's still not optimal as the editcontrol doesn't yet handle SMS style input (obviously T9 doesn't make much sense here).

2. Jump to next/prev letter with the sort order being now available within the skin.

I've tried filtering when instead of dropping items on the list it jumps through the list, but found it was worse. Jumping through letter by letter when fast scrolling was also tried, and it didn't work well. We do, however, now pop up the first letter of the sort label when scrolling fast now though, so increasing scroll speed when the buttons' been held down may be an option for remote + keyboard users.

My current thinking is to change the filter button to an edit control - focus this control to start filtering (this can be done with a keypress from keymap.xml if you wish). I'm not sure about highlighting the submatches at this point. This works really well for keyboard, and almost as well for remote (just the extra button press to start filtering).

In addition we could have actions such as "MoveToABC", or "FilterABC" for direct access to the filtering, or jumping through the list.

Cheers
Jonathan

JM, I am not sure this issue is related to live filtering but I suspect so based on the below.

While playing with the live filter build I got from you, I notice the following.
When I refresh an incorrectly scraped movie, and get the OSD keyboard, the text is arbitrarily red and prefixed with something like [H] (not necessarily at the same time though).

Plus, any chance for "home" and "delete" keyboard support?

Yeah - that's the highlight stuff, which I may well end up removing (it is currently a bit of a hack) before it hits svn.

Delete should already be supported by the edit control (not necessarily the virtual keyboard) - is it not?

And home is currently mapped in that build to disable the filter, but if it wasn't it wouldn't do anything either

Cheers,
Jonathan

Sorry but I am making something wrong because I cant use the live filter.
I have the latest svn, and if I press shift + letter C (for example) the list goes to the first film with the C.
But if I press number 2 or 3 or 6 ... dont do anything. And oviously, if I press number 3 or 4 ... in my remote it doesnt do anything too.
Please can someone say me how can I run Live Filter
Thannks a lot

You've got to keymap FilterSMS2 through FilterSMS9 (and FilterClear).

For jumping, map JumpSMS2 through JumpSMS9

Cheers,
Jonathan

sorry but don't understand what you say...can you explain with more detail, please?
thanks a lot

Please can anyone tell me how can I do it?

Billy,

a search for SMS turned up this thread:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=45502

-Wes