Matching substrings, and window disappearing

[HughMacdonald]

Hey Ben,

Someone (Jon, maybe? Possibly Sean) mentioned TabTabTab to me at the Nuke 8 launch event last night, and I thought I'd check it out today.

I love the idea of sorting by the most added nodes - that's definitely useful.

One thing that may have been deliberate, but isn't quite intuitive to me, is that it will only slow matches that start with the same letter.

I reckon that you should be able to type "expr" and have it give you options of Expression, MergeExpression, ParticleExpression and DeepExpression

The other thing is (again, probably deliberate) is that I knocked the mouse and the pop-up disappeared. I would prefer it to act the same way as Nuke's built-in one and not disappear until something else is clicked, or a node is selected to be added.

What do you think of these?

[dbr]

I reckon that you should be able to type "expr" and have it give you options of Expression, MergeExpression, ParticleExpression and DeepExpression

This was what I tried first, but found it caused far more unhelpful matches, and required more typing.. whereas the current behaviour quickly allows you to narrow the nodes down to maybe 1 or 2 options

If you want to try out the behaviour, modify the line (around line 241):

if nonconsec_find(filtertext, uiname.lower(), anchored=True):

changing it to anchored=False

There are a few cases where the "match anywhere" behaviour could be useful (like finding a node which "might be named "BlurTweaked" or "TweakedBlur"), but generally for day-to-day work I found the anchored-searching much more usable

Hm, a possible compromise might be to anchor on capital letters, instead of only on the first letter (e.g e would match MergeExpression because the second "word" starts with e)

I would prefer it to act the same way as Nuke's built-in one and not disappear until something else is clicked, or a node is selected to be added

Ah, I intended to match the behaviour of the builtin dialog, but there is a small difference:

• With the builtin widget: when you click elsewhere, it de-activates the text box. Clicking a second time hides the dialog
• With tabtabtab: the dialog disappears after the first click.

Presumably you have focus-follows-mouse enabled, which causes the dialog to disappear as soon as the mouse leaves the window

Should be easy enough to fix

[dbr]

Oops, forgot about this - the word-separator-anchor would be worth trying. Another solution might be to have /abc do match-anywhere search for abc - similar to [space]abc which does literal search (should document that also)

[dbr]

Other simple option would be to append the non-anchored results after the current results (so cam would show Camera and CameraThing, then a separator, then Export Camera thing, Noncamera)

[xavinitram]

Hi there! :smiley: Any updates on the substring matching? I vote for the asterisc, as in *blur would return Blur, VectorBlur, MotionBlur, EdgeBlur, TimeBlur. Also the idea of first returning the direct matches and then the substring matches is a very good one.