[bt-devel] Patch for reference textbox with autocomplete

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi Mark,
your patch is really cool! I like the way it navigates and the 
auto-completion.

In the Bible window I get three scrollers. Do you get those, too?

I still have not looked at your code, but I'm sure it's cleaner than the old 
one.
I always tried to avoid working on the keychooser stuff because it's code is 
already rotten and never found the time to rewrite that part.

I got several ideas how to improve the autocompletion, but that's something I 
can do later if you don't find the time or energy.
If a book is entered the completion list could list several chapters at once, 
so both keyboard navigation as well as entering the key at once would work.
I'm still unsure how to present the list of valid book abbrevs to the user.

Thanks again, that's really cool to have this nice feature!
Joachim

> Knocked this up and I wondered what you think (not proposing to put it in
> yet but its just a concept). Basically, I replaced the standard
> book/chapter/verse display (just for bibles/lexica, not books etc) with a
> textbox so you can type in (in shorthand) a reference and it will appear.
> Also split the scroller widgets into a separate class so I could use them
> with this and make the existing combo/scroller things easier to manage.
>
> In the end, I could see that there could be a preference, because in the
> way I study the bible I am always jumping around, and so being able to type
> 'mk 5' or '2cor 7' rather than selecting various books would make my
> experience a lot more enjoyable.
>
> patch applies to a fresh beta2. Please give me some feedback :-)
>
> Mark