Find as you type

wasker · Post by **wasker** » 2005 Oct 25, 19:10

Say, I want to get quickly into My Pictures folder. I open My Documents and start typing M, y, [SPACE]... And guess what happens when I press [SPACE]?.. 8)

Any workaround?

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2005 Oct 25, 19:43

none that I know of

. . . except . . . wait for nikos to patch his keyboard input subroutine(s) such that [space] will not be interpreted as an end-of-sequence indicator.

Starsurfer · Post by **Starsurfer** » 2005 Oct 25, 19:59

wasker wrote...

. And guess what happens when I press [SPACE]?

what happens ?

wasker · Post by **wasker** » 2005 Oct 25, 20:05

Sh*t happens!

Pardon my French. Selection is being toggled when you press [SPACE] key, while I expect the space to be counted as a part of file name.

Ha! Just checked -- Explorer handles this situation as expected.

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2005 Oct 25, 20:30

ah, yes the spacebar has been appropriated for 'toggle selection' (how could I forget?)
But that just makes it trickier to 'fix', needing to prohibit 'toggle-select' interpretation if the spacebar press is just a few millisec after other typing keystroke(s). I would think it could be on the same pause detector/timer that keeps keystrokes 'together' as a single query.

Starsurfer · Post by **Starsurfer** » 2005 Oct 25, 20:52

Dhamu · Post by **Dhamu** » 2005 Oct 26, 04:59

Instead of typing [space], you can use [shift+space]. You have to remember to do it, but it does work without having to wait for a new version of xplorer².

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Oct 26, 11:36

nice workaround!