Please remove the Alt shortcut. It interferes with default WinXP input language switching combination (Alt+Shift).

NEMO7538,
My dreams came true! Thanks for making this WONDERFUL component!!

OMFG, I am rockin` in the free world now

my thoughts exactly... please remove Alt shortcut. It interferes with Alt+TAB (:worse:)
I'd say standard win behavior, Alt+down for displaying dropdown menus is better suited

ok, will fix for the next version.

So how do I do this if the panel doesn't show up in columns_ui preferences?

This would be great. Also, if you could put some kind of delay on the search, that would be great. As it is, I have a library of 9000 songs, and when I go to type "trail of dead" with the inline search, it performs the search immediately after "t", "tr", "tra", which as you can imagine with a large library really chunks away at my CPU. If possible, could you make your inline search behave similarly/exactly to how the default foobar F3 search works (ie only run the search after the user has stopped typing for .5sec). That way I can type out the full "trail of dead" at a reasonable speed, and a half-second after I'm done it'll run its first and correct search instead of 11 consecutive searches, which is just silly imo.

Thanks, and great work on the plugin!

you could make an option to set the delay and a minimum character count so everybody can adjust it according to favours.

Thanks a lot for this plugin. It was the final thing I needed for my Foobar 0.9



And while you're at it, could you change the behavior of the search history?
When I do an inline search, let's say for "trail of the dead", my history looks like this:

trail of the dead
trail of the dea
trail of the de
trail of the d
trail of the
trail of the

I guess if you do as Manticorr says, it won't be a big problem, so just give it a low priority

Thx again for a great plugin!

To prevent that problem in the history for search-as-you-type, you might want to set the delay pretty long, maybe as long as 4 or 5 seconds, so that only the main searches are saved. Of course the actual searching delay should remain short at about .5 seconds.

A quickfix was implemented in the latest versions. Please redownload from first post.

Thank you

The inline "search as you type" doesn't seem to work over here...I always have to type what I want, and then hit enter. Also, when deleting the text to search for something new, the playlist remains on the last search results...so I have to use the browser to sort of "reset" the playlist...or am I just not using this plugin correctly?

search domain has to be to be Active playlist for it to work... as stated many times in this thread

Hello,

I'm searching for a possibility for assigning a shortcut to get the focus to the search field. Did I missed anything? As I can not find any functionality to do this.

Regards, Lars

Map a short key to the main menu entry : Library/Quicksearch Toolbar. if the toolbar is already active it shoud receive the focus.

Hi,
this tool is really useful, but is there a way to integrate it into the foobar layout as a toolbar instead of having it floating around?
TX

First of all - awesome! but ..

- What does pressing Enter do? I have to press it twice to play...
- When QuickSearch is open, but has no focus it closes when I use shortcut "j".
I have to press it twice, then it opens and gets focused.
- If you make a typo (the song is not found), then it selects text, and next character deletes all.
For example: i'm trying to search for "3 doors down", and accidently type in "doops" - it deletes doop, and finds "s".
- I too would like to see integrated search, as a toolbar.


And thx again for this great component.

Right click any toolbar / Toolbars / Quick Search Toolbar
Alternatively you may go to Preferences / Display / Columns UI / Layout and modify the current layout (or create a new one) mostly by using right click

first of all i'd like to say i love this plugin and thanx for your hard work.

the problem i have is when i do a search, the created playlist result sorts my songs in a weird order, is there a way to set it to sort the way i like? like by album.

Will be fixed in the next version ...

I just realized its also available as a floating panel. Great! I start it like this on one machine using a shortcut, this is very useful.

If the search is successful, the playlist in background gets the focus.

Would you please add an option "Close floating panel when successful"? Then we will not have to press tab+esc or use the mouse...

roentgen: This is for ColumnsUI users only, I suppose, because there is no such option.

Thank you for still supporting v0.8x !!!

Here's an odd one: When my search string is a five letter word and a six letter word (e.g. "yankee hotel"), nothing happens when I hit enter. Err..? Can anyone confirm?

Confirmed .... and already fixed here will be fixed in the next version.

I have just tested "Database Search Toolbar Demo" which has the "search as u type" feature for the database. It doesn't even take a second to search for an "a".

Version 2.7 is out. Check first post for details and download.
Please note :"Search as you type" now implemented without restrictions induced some significant code reorganization. Please consider this version as a beta and report any issue (or even correct behaviour) that I will fix promptly. I'd also like to know how this new feature behaves with large data bases.

first thoughts:

1. There's a 'ding' when I press ESC or when pressing ENTER (with or without found items in playlist)
2. Feature request (I think someone said it already): with 'Autosearch' and 'Inline search' enabled, could ENTER be remapped to playing focused item? (no need to press enter anyway)
3. Feature request: wouldn't be better when showing the dropdown menu (with Alt+down) to have history items, then separator, then preferences, options, etc. (just a thought ... according to my taste )
4. Feature request: autoselect previous search string (I rarely search twice for the same )
5. The 'error' color shouldn't stay that way ONLY when quicksearch toolbar is focused? (and reset to default color when not focused?)

Thank you for support and great work.

Working well with a 17k db. Thanks NEMO!

edit: I second feature request #2 above

17k??? Mine is 1.5 Mb with just 1806 songs... and BTW ... quicksearch has no problems with it

The annoying sounds are now removed. Please redownload from first post.
As for request #2 above you can use Escape and then Enter.

Excellent work! It's almost perfect on my 3800 song db. Thanks for implementing find as you type for the db.
One bug though: When I type in "darkest hour", the name appended to the playlist only shows "darkest hou" It doesnt allow any more letters for this combination of letters for some reason.

Also, is it possible to make the delay customizable?

Again great work.

Heh, 17k as in tracks. ~5.3 megs.

Hmmm ... i thought it was fixed but apprently when I corrected the annoying sound (see a few posts above), the bug reappeared. I will investigate

Will the 2.7 features be available to 0.8.3 users?

On W2K and latest fb2k: If I start your plugin via menu or keyboard shortcut, the appearing window is about 5 times as high as the text area. There is a big grey area below the text field. It is not resizable.

Hi NEMO7538,

Great, great, great plugin

I really like the context menu search, 'same genre', 'same artist', etc... I've just one question, it's there a way (or any plans to implement if it can't, be done) to make custom context menu searchs? i.e. I'll like to search for same tempo, or same styles (it's a multiple tag that you can get from AMG), etc...

Thanks.

Wow, man. Thanks for the speedy feature additions.

Feature request... This would rock my world so much. Can you change the "grey" edge style? I think it makes sense.

Thanks for reporting ... will fix for V2.8. Please also note that the plugin as an independant window is unstable in this version. I would recommend using it as a toolbar for the moment, until the next version.

Maybe in a future version.

When it is stabilized yes.

Hi, thanks for the great work on the plugin. I just have a couple of feature requests/bug reports:

Bug: When the mouse is moved quickly over the toolbar the little 'down-arrow' stays red. Maybe a call to TrackMouseEvent and looking out for WM_MOUSELEAVE would help here?

Feature request: When in inline search mode, blank the box when the user presses enter (ie. to play the track their search found)

Feature request: Use database search API that foosion's demo component uses. It's mighty fast.

Feature request: Steal the icon from same database search demo toolbar, it's more shiny than the current one.

I had noticed already .... thanks for the solution, I will investigate.
Users should use Escape + Enter to play the track. I'm a bit reluctant to change the behaviour / keys function according to what setup is active, it might be confusing.
I will investigate, as soon as the source code is available.
That's what I used in the first place but this shiny version doesn't look great on a dark background, so I changed it.

Is it an intentional behaviour, that quicksearch for same... e.g. artist (the one from the context menu) searches the whole database and ignores the "search in..." settings?

Yes

This is what I see:

Get the latest columns UI

Amazing work Nemo, nicely fast on my (reasonably large) DB and the functionality is flawless. Thanks again.

This problem should be fixed now. Please redownload from first post and note that you will need to run foobar once without the pluginfor the window size to be restored to normal.
I would advise everyone as well to redownload from first post as a potential crash was discovered in the previous version. The correct version should be 2.7c. Thanks

Absolutely amazing, thx alot!

...and answer "no" on foobars question if it should keep its settings...

Thanks, works now.

Question: Could you turn off the delay when searching in playlists AND autosearch is turned on? Or do you think it is necessary there as well (as in database search)?

This strange bug should be fixed now (happenned with search strings of length 12 and 26).
Can you please redownload from first post and confirm? Thanks.