Augury and reading chicken bones for profit...(was Pun-dirty...)

[Laura Brody]

At 06:38 PM 7/24/2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > Should any of you want to try something really cool that I'm sure 99% 
> of you
> > don't know... Try this. Open Explorer and navigate to some directory with
> > lots of stuff in it. Assuming your cursor (the highlight bar in this case)
> > has focus in one of the panes, rapidly press the first few letters of a 
> file
> > or folder you see below you. The highlight will jump directly to it. Cool,
> > huh?  Not knowing this tiny piece of info caused me months of painful
> > navigation in Windows. This functionality is true in almost all well 
> written
> > trees and listboxes.
>
>Commonly referred to as 'incremental search'.
>
>Possibly the coolest filepro hack I *ever* saw was when Jeff Harrison
>implemented this in *browse lookups*.
         If I understand what you are describing....

         There was an article in SmallTalk , Summer 1992, Vol 9
No 2, page 13, by Michael Gomes "Browse Lookups: An Advanced
Technique". It contains the code for a browse lookup which
displays records that match as the user types a character.

         Howie also did this and posted his code on his website:
<http://www.photobuff.com/autocomp.htm>.


Laura Brody, Publisher of the "filePro Developer's Journal"
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