Live Filter for List

[jjk]

I just discovered that Live Filter for List was postponed in your roadmap, once more, after MOBU this time.
I am waiting for Live Filter for List since so long...
Please, please, it would be so handy to have that feature.

Thanks anyway.

[admin]

Oh, very attentive!

The thing with MOBU is that I myself got so spoiled by google's mouseover blow up (did they steal that from XY's MDBU?) that I just have to have this in XY.

Live Filter is also a feature that will probably take very long to ripen because LOTS of code changes are involved.

[phatmankerr]

Another vote for live filter.

This is so useful that i now occasionally go back to using DOpus just to use it

Would much rather have it in XY

[admin]

Just being curious: Where would you expect a live filter box in the UI? (I think about adding it to the left end of the statusbar, just like the filter boxes in other list dialogs of XY.)

[jjk]

Yes, to the left end of the statusbar is good for me.
But give it a keyboard shortcut (as in TotalCommander) please.
And possible to apply it in (multiple) branch view.
Exciting feature in approach...

[phatmankerr]

I would have said to the right of the address bar as a personal preference - but that clashes with the tool bar in XY...

So actually to the left of the status bar would work for me also

[TheQwerty]

Just being curious: Where would you expect a live filter box in the UI? (I think about adding it to the left end of the statusbar, just like the filter boxes in other list dialogs of XY.)

I'd quite honestly prefer it just re-use the address bar.

I really believe this shouldn't be a separate feature but rather an enhancement to how visual filters work.

[Stefan]

I think i vote for address bar too.
Just let the "|" symbol filter the list in real time, live.

[phatmankerr]

Certainly no objections to extending current filter syntax in the address bar.

But I think it would be useful to have a separate control for live filter - it's something I would use often enough to justify the use of space on the status bar (sure Don would make the status bar control optional anyway )

[admin]

The Live Filter will live independently of the Visual Filter. Sure there is some overlap in functionality/use, but technically they will be different things, and it's easy to imagine situations where you want to apply a live filter on top of a visually filtered list.

[TheQwerty]

The Live Filter will live independently of the Visual Filter. Sure there is some overlap in functionality/use, but technically they will be different things, and it's easy to imagine situations where you want to apply a live filter on top of a visually filtered list.

At which point the user would modify the existing filter - seems silly to have filters upon filters upon filters. I see absolutely zero sense in keeping them separate, nor do I see a reason why the technical side of things should be all that different. After all, a live filter is just a visual filter that is applied and updated as it is being typed.

If not the address bar my preference goes to doing something like Chrome/Firefox where it's not always visible but available on demand as an overlay or new toolbar.

The status bar already feels too crowded to me.


It's a shame we can't have a true bar and docking manager that would allow all these things to actually be customizable beyond the visibility boolean.

[jjk]

The Live Filter will live independently of the Visual Filter. Sure there is some overlap in functionality/use, but technically they will be different things, and it's easy to imagine situations where you want to apply a live filter on top of a visually filtered list.

I totally agree. It is nice to see a large list reducing until have only the files matching some string.
For my needs, it is not the same feature than VF.

my preference goes to doing something like Chrome/Firefox where it's not always visible but available on demand as an overlay or new toolbar.

+1 also.

[admin]

my preference goes to doing something like Chrome/Firefox where it's not always visible but available on demand as an overlay or new toolbar.

+1 also.

I might add a hideable bar at the bottom of each list (= each pane), similar to Firefox's "find bar" (or whatever it's called).

[avsfan]

my preference goes to doing something like Chrome/Firefox where it's not always visible but available on demand as an overlay or new toolbar.

+1 also.

I might add a hideable bar at the bottom of each list (= each pane), similar to Firefox's "find bar" (or whatever it's called).

This sounds great to me!

[phatmankerr]

Agree - hideable bar sounds like a neat solution