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Slothskin

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Theater View Search
« on: December 09, 2008, 06:41:52 pm »

I'm trying to set up the Theater View search option, it seems that the search always lists all the tracks matching the search criteria. I'd like to:

If searching for Artist - show the list of artists, drill downm to albums, and then tracks
If searching for Albums - show albums, and drill down to tracks
If searching for Name or All - show tracks

Is there a simple way of doing this ?

I do have a view scheme that groups the artists and allows a drill down, but would also like to do the same with the search function.
 
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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 02:06:51 pm »

A better Theater View search is coming soon.
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Re: Theater View Search (add button)
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 01:36:04 pm »

How about a "Clear" button next to "Backspace" ... to quickly remove any search string present rather than backspacing?

Theater view is pretty cool. Never played around with it til now and I'm impressed.

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Re: Theater View Search (add button)
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 01:56:50 pm »

How about a "Clear" button next to "Backspace" ... to quickly remove any search string present rather than backspacing?

We tried that, but some users felt it was confusing having both.
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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 02:35:11 pm »

I don't know how anyone could get confused but OK. Theater View is XML based ... correct? Is the Clear function coded but commented out? I'd like to re-enable.

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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 07:16:46 pm »

I was confused.  It happens.
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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2009, 03:45:43 am »

So no XML hacks?

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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2009, 12:03:31 pm »

What is confusing is that the keyboard button 'Backspace' doesn't actually perform a backspace but moves back a view when typing into the search. 

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Re: Theater View Search
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2009, 02:51:29 am »

Sure does. Tends to make the keyboard great for getting search text in, but lousy for removing it quickly, leading to cumbersome searches. The on-screen keyboard should compliment the physical one ... not replace it.
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