[bt-devel] Patch for reference textbox with autocomplete

[Mark Zealey]

Thank you very much, nice suggestions I shall have a look. What did you mean 
about the three scrollers? They are there to provide sliding functions on 
book, chapter, verse as before (not sure about whether the verse one is 
particularly useful. I dont know how to do valid abbrvs; I just put it into 
->key(verse) and it automatically parses and returns the closest match.

Attached is a patch with one problem fixed.

Mark

On Monday 22 May 2006 11:12 pm, Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> 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
>
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