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[jlar310]

Trying to be diplomatic with my subject wording... 'sub-optimal' was the nicest spin I could think of...

For my main "Audio" view scheme I have the main window as "Album Artist (auto)" with "Thumbnails" and "Show Alphabet". When I click on a letter in the alphabet, it jumps to the first artist that starts with that letter, but, if my previous position was above the selected letter it places that thumbnail at the BOTTOM of the scrollable view. So, for example, if I am scrolled all the way to the top and I click on 'P', I see mostly M, N, and O artists with the P artists starting at the bottom of the view. And if the first P artist happens to fall at the end of the row, that's the only one I see. If my current position is below the selected letter, then the newly selected letter starts at the top.

Shouldn't the Alphabet functionality behave in a manner that shows as many of the matching items as possible by placing the first one at the TOP of the view regardless of the previous position?

From my experience programming scrollable views, it looks like MC is just doing some default 'scrollToViewable' function in a GUI library without any added code for optimal placement. Any chance of getting that tweaked? It would really make the Alphabet feature a lot more user friendly.

Thanks.

MC 12.0.451

[Matt]

Sub-optimal is bad.

In build 460 and later:
Changed: When doing a quick search (Ctrl+Q or alphabet) the found item will be placed at the top of the screen.

[Osho]

While we are on this topic - it would also be nice if we could go through all letters by pressing a key repeatedly - e.g., P, Q, R, S by pressing 7 repeatedly.

Osho