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 Post subject: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:28 pm 
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Hi,..

I have been looking in the program for the movie "Die", and when
i typed the name, the input field stays open waiting for more input.
BUT, there is no more input.

Now i have to scroll trough the (about 450) listed movies with the
word "Die" in it till i find movies starting with "D"

Why not showing only the movie "Die" when typing is ready ?

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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:57 pm 
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Skinamp wrote:
Why not showing only the movie "Die" when typing is ready ?

How would the program know that typing is ready ? I don't understand.


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Now i have to scroll trough the (about 450) listed movies with the
word "Die" in it till i find movies starting with "D"

It's true that some movies are very annoying to search. The best solution that I've found so far would be to add letter buttons to quickly access the first movie starting with "D".

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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:59 pm 
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Oke, this would do it,.. on the other hand, when the
program gets an enter after the word Die, it could
present the movies with the word Die as first word ?

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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:09 pm 
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Skinamp wrote:
on the other hand, when the
program gets an enter after the word Die, it could
present the movies with the word Die as first word ?

I'm sorry, it wouldn't be coherent. The results are ordered alphabetically.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:16 pm 
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Skinamp wrote:
it could present the movies with the word Die as first word ?

Maybe there we have the beginning of an idea...

The string search could present a short list of best results, in addition to the full list of results. This short list would show exact matches and most popular movies.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
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(cool) Hector wrote:
Maybe there we have the beginning of an idea...

I made a sketch, and that looks very interesting. I think it could completely replace the other idea of letter buttons.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:01 pm 
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Oke, that sounds nice
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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
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In this world of texting and generally poor use of spelling and syntax, a more intuitive string search would be nice. For instance, my search for Columbiana was a no-hit, because it was supposed to be Colombiana. Perhaps you could urge the string search to look for partial word matches, maybe? Thank you on behalf of us illiterate folks.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie string/filtered search
PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:15 pm 
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spuhworm wrote:
a more intuitive string search would be nice.

Sorry, but I don't plan to change the string search.

The fuzzy search that you suggest is completely different from the exact search that we have now => I would lose all the work that I've done to create the current search + I would have to spend a lot of time to code the new search + a fuzzy search would be very slow compared to the exact search (there are many movies, but that's okay with the exact search because it's indexed) + I personally prefer the benefits of an exact search.


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