[solved] 32&64 : Visual Filter - No History via Scripting

[bossi]

Ghost and Global Visual Filter retain history of Filters set via Script ,,, Visual Filter does not , so toggling Visual Filter off and on loads the last Visual Filter set via GUI ...
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[admin]

Agreed, that's inconsistent. Changed in the next beta.

[jupe]

I have tried to work around the affects of this change, but I have to say I find it pretty inconvenient, I hate to ask, but I think one possible remedy might be to have a new flag for SC filter to keep the old behavior (ie. not add to the UI mru), is that something you would consider?


TLDR ver:
I use SC filter in many frequently used scripts and having them constantly polluting the UI MRU list makes the :vf btn dropdown pretty unusable for me now, also I now encounter the opposite issue the op mentioned, so when trying to toggle to the last used VF I get the last used scripted VF instead, which is from a script which was run on a different pane/tab and is irrelevant to the current list. Also the VF's I use via script can be very long and complex so they add quite a significant amount of chars to the XY ini quite rapidly, and I can't just quickly open list mgmt and press clear because I make use of ----> mru too.

[admin]

Yes, of course, I had a reason for excluding the SC filter from the MRU in 2009.

I'll add a flag for active MRU opt-in.
No, I do it differently, you'll see.

[bossi]

PS .:
seeing Don added a new mru() function in conjunction to this "request"
wanted to point out a manual way of adding a Script generated VF to the MRU :

- Rclick on VF
- Lclick Set Visual Filter...
- the current Script generate VF string is still there
- Click "ok"

now i added it to the VF MRU , easy as that ...

[bossi]

I have tried to work...

did VF MRU change back to its "classical" functionality after recent updates ?
here the VF MRU gets populated with search strings from LiveFilter ,
or rather they share the same MRU now .
normally VF MRU would never be affected by LF

[jupe]

Based on your statements I get the impression you rarely use VF or LF. The VF LF MRU being shared has been that way since the late v26 betas, or about 6+ months.

And yes, thankfully VF MRU via SC filter has returned to its original behavior that had been around for at least 15 years until you decided it was a bug which led to changed behavior for all users in an unavoidable way, so I did "request" a way to keep the original behavior, but now you can also optionally use SC mru to get the behavior you seemed to need based on your orig post.

[bossi]

ahh yes i just found it in the changelog history ,,, yes 6 month old update , for me the change occured only on update to x64 .
easy fixable via ini setting.