[bt-devel] Bible Time Development - Search Dialog

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Gary Holmlund wrote:
>   
>> I have checked in the changes for the search dialog.
>>     
> The search combo box has some deficiencies.
>
> The order of the history list is weird after it has been updated. Try 
> also selecting an item from the history and see how the list changes.
>
> The empty line should be removed from (or not added to) the history.
>   
I will look into this.
> The autocompletion acts strangely when there are many items: it 
> completes to one item but if I try to scroll through the list it gives 
> only two or so items which are not even similar. A drop-down list 
> (filtered list of the history) for completion would be ideal but I don't 
> know how difficult it would be. I guess the current one is good enough.
>
> The KDE widget was one of the nice ones and it would be too much work to 
> duplicate it. This is the drawback of going to Qt-only...
>
> --Eeli
>   
The KHistoryComboBox actually saves the frequency of use of
the history terms and uses in the completer. The QComboBox
completer is much simpler. I am not sure how easy it would be
to do what KDE does in its completer.

Gary