Re: help for "quick search"

On Sunday 08 March 2009, you wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Levente Torok <toroklev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Dave,
> >
> > Thank you very much you quick and detailed answer.
> > We will try to follow your comments so I'll keep talking on hacker's list.
> > We would accept all your comments on functionality.
> >
> > Does anybody on the list know if there is possiblity to use WxTree in a way that one can disable /enable
> > of displaying specific branches or leaves?
> > Because Akos hasn't found a way to do so, hence we turned to a solution in which
> > we create a copy of the original tree containing the elements to be displayed (the search
> > result set) only.
>
> I don't believe that is possible. You shouldn't be implementing the
> search result display in that way anyway in my opinion - what you're
> implementing there is a filter, not a search. I would expect results
> to be listed in a Window, and a double-click on any row should select
> and bring the corresponding node into view on the treeview.
>

I believe it would require too much user interaction and no benefit compared to
manual search.
I suggest not even to have a search button but do filter operating
on-the-fly. This should be similar to the quick search of new synaptic (in ubuntu).

Lev

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