GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 301287
Incremental (typeahead) search in PDB browser
Last modified: 2005-05-13 15:58:24 UTC
It would save me some time if the pdb browser had an incremental search, thus eliminating the need to press a button to start it. For example, typing f i l e _ will narrow down the results to the file load plug-ins (and one or two others) with each character that is entered. The two search buttons could be replaced with e.g. radio buttons to decide what will be searched.
GTK+ 2.6 gives us this for free. Perhaps you need to upgrade? I think doing incremental search on anything but the procedure name would be confusing to the user.
The way GTK+ 2.6 does this is not obvious. Can the existing search field by plugged into this incremental search somehow?
Oh, and the GTK+ search does work totally different than the search of the browser - it just jumps to the first entry and doesn't decide what is displayed.
This request sounds a lot like how the Perl version of the PDB browser worked, you might try using it instead (unless you are already and that is where you got the idea for this enhancment).
Using the perl version of the PDB browser is not really an option (did anyone try to build gimp-perl on Win32 recently; can this be done using a default MinGW setup and ActivePerl now?). However, AFAIK the procbrowser is supposed to go into libgimp(ui), so this would be even more useful to have in the default distro.
Fixed in CVS: 2005-05-13 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> * plug-ins/dbbrowser/gimpprocbrowser.c * plug-ins/dbbrowser/plugin-browser.c: implement typeahead search and get rid of the search buttons in the action area. Cleaned up dialog layout and code. Fixes bug #301287.