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Search Doesn't Work in WT# 2.3

2016-06-13
2016-06-13
  • aberneywadvo

    aberneywadvo - 2016-06-13

    I don't see a reference to this anywhere so I thought I'd report it. The Search bar at the bottom of the WT# Weapons, Items, Bank, and Locker views doesn't work. I can enter a word to search for. But, nothing happens when I tell it to search. Other than that, it's looking really good.

    BTW: Just for clarity, I downloaded WillowTree#-2.2.1.286-experimental, yet the About tab in it says WillowTree# prerelease 2.3.

     
  • matt911

    matt911 - 2016-06-13

    Yeah, the latest version is 2.2.1.286.

    In the code I see this note:

    "//TODO Should be less dependant from "Colorize Lists" menu"

    The search does sort of work, but what the way it works is not really very helpful. It needs to be removed or implemented in a completely different and more useful way, but that's probably not something I am going to get around to any time soon. To see the results of the search you have to turn on Colorize Lists in the options. After you do that you type in what you are searching for and click search and it makes the font of items that match it bold and italic in the list. If you have a long list of items that's not really helpful finding one particular item at all, but if you have a limited list of items and you are searching for all of them that contain a certain part then it might help.

    I am guessing by the grammar that I didn't write that todo note and I dont remember exactly how the search got to the state we are in now, but its clearly not ideal. Even in older versions of WT# all it did was highlight some items in the list and that just isn't very helpful. It really needs to limit the display and only show the items that meet the search criteria temporarily, but the item list hasn't been designed that way.

     

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