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Customize Outline Search Filter Behavior [message #1273099] Wed, 19 March 2014 10:03 Go to next message
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Is it possible to customize the filter behavior in the outline?

For example, when you write "abc" in the filter, only nodes that their names start with "abc" will be listed. What if I want all nodes that their names contain "abc" to be listed?

What if I even want a more complex strategy?

Is that even possible?
Re: Customize Outline Search Filter Behavior [message #1273149 is a reply to message #1273099] Wed, 19 March 2014 11:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It is not possible to customize the content outline search behavior, but Sapphire is reusing JFace FilteredTree for the content outline, so one can achieve contains semantics by adding a leading wildcard, such as "*abc".
Re: Customize Outline Search Filter Behavior [message #1273549 is a reply to message #1273149] Thu, 20 March 2014 02:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Don't you think it might be useful to add a new kind of services, called for example "FindingService"?

I can think of it as taking a String (the text in the search area), and returning a Boolean (whether or not the Node associated with this element should be listed).

What do you think?
Re: Customize Outline Search Filter Behavior [message #1273876 is a reply to message #1273549] Thu, 20 March 2014 13:24 Go to previous message
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A big issue with this is that allowing filtering behavior to be customized means not being able to reuse FilteredTree from JFace. Re-implementing this functionality would be a lot of work. There could also be a usability problem if different editors implemented filtering differently and user would have no way of determining how filtering works in a particular editor.
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