Re: [Q] : search window ?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2001.12.21 13:19 Emmanuel wrote:
> There was a feature request to have a window containing all messages 
> matching a search request, and when you click on one of these messages 
> you are moved to the actual message of the mailbox.
> I have an idea to implement that having in mind that I want to reuse max 
> of code. Namely I just want to mimic the pop3 hack : create a fake 
> mailbox, fill it with matching messages and then create a BalsaIndex 
> associated to that mailbox. Then you're almost done (you just have to 
> manage the click and the selection of the corresponding message in the 
> actual mailbox, that's easy I think).

This is simplest, but far from good. Imagine, you mistype your search and 
end up copying several megabytes of data. I am afraid the right way of 
doing it should be more sofisticated. What about subclassing 
LibBalsaMailbox?

-pawel