Re: Fun, relatively simple feature help

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> writes:
> Kristian Rietveld <kristian planet nl> writes:
> 
> > On 6 Jun 2001, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > A feature that would be nice for GtkTreeView to have is an interactive
> > > search facility.  This could be done relatively easily, and shouldn't
> > > take that long to do for anyone with some knowledge of GTK+.
> > > Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have time to add it before GTK 2.0, so
> > > if anyone is looking for something to do and is interested in tackling
> > > this project, let me know.
> > 
> > I would like to do this. But I need more details. Do you want some
> > functions which a programmer can use to search through the tree? Or
> > something else?
> 
> I was thinking of something simple like, when you press C-s, it'd popup
> an entry that you could type text in.  As you type in the text, it would
> search the model for text relating to that (I'm not 100% sure what the
> best behavior here is -- we can discuss it though.)  I think the best
> way to approach the problem is to get something started and refining it
> until it works well.
> 

To give some context, the general idea is an equivalent to the "press
first letter of a row to go to that row" feature.

I'm not 100% convinced the C-s thing is a full replacement for just
having the simple "press first letter" thing, it might be nice to have
both.

Havoc