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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:03:47PM -0400, Laura Brody wrote:
> >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>.

Yeah, I don't suppose it's surprising that it had been done before.

And of course, Jeff is an alum.  But it was still cool, and that was
still where *I* saw it first.

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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