It's works perfectly as it is now. It will find your title whether your search term is at the beginning of the title or not. That's why it's called Simple Search. I can locate Finding Nemo equally well by entering "fin" or "nem"—without fiddling with options. And matching only at the beginning would be completely useless for searching many fields. The ability to match only at the beginning, if it's needed, is a feature that belongs in Advance Search (i.e., a "starts with" operator).
A search, just like a filter, needs to stay in effect until the user is ready to clear it. That's what the icon beside the search box is for.
Agreed - It does work perfectly now but it doesn't do what I need it to for my task.
The search feature is very good, but try this....
Have a list of say 50 movies / tv shows /whatever (physical media). That only has the title. (You don't know anything about them, or you can't remember how you classified them.) Now you want to sort them into piles base on Genre.
Pull a handful of disks off a spindle and try sorting them into pile based on Genre/ media location/ whatever.
First you have to type enough of the title so you can easily locate the entry in left hand side.
Then you have to click on that entry. - Look for Genre category - Place disk in that pile.
Click in search bar to highlight whatever is in there (so it overwrites).
Type your next movie title so you can easily locate the entry in left hand side.
Then you have to click on that entry. - Look for Genre category - Place disk in that pile.
repeat - ad nauseam.
If instead:
When you started to type, it searched entries on the left hand side (and hopefully automatically selected when you stopped typing).
So:
You could start typing until it found the entry.
Look at Genre.
Place disk in pile.
Start typing
This is a much more efficient work flow.
Hopefully you have burnt all your media in alphabetical order so if you or in a "G" section for example , there could be 3 or 4 movies in a row that are in that range and don't need to be searched.
If you can't find the entry from the title due to misspelling for example, then the searchbox with all its options is still available.
The second suggestion:
"Also would it be possible to autoclear the searchbox rather than append after a search. (as an option)"
A search, just like a filter, needs to stay in effect until the user is ready to clear it. That's what the icon beside the search box is for.
I did say as an option. Perhaps Nostra could configure it so there is a preference button to
append or
overwrite depending on user preference
Overwriting removes the need to click in the search box to clear the entry (One less step).
Just start typing again (After a timeout period)
Also it would be nice if it auto-selected if there was only a single entry visible. Another step could be removed.
This would not break anything. Also when gridview becomes available, you don't even have to type the full text. Get the list close enough so your entry is visible and read off what is required from the grid.
