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Inventory seach should match anywhere in name

Tiger Crossing
The Prim Maker
Join date: 18 Aug 2003
Posts: 1,560
10-25-2004 14:20
Right now, typing a few letters with the Inventory window open and in front will scroll to and select an item that starts with those letters, or the nearest that can be found.

This should be changed to find the letters anywhere in an item's name. So that typing "chair" would find:

- electric chair
- pink chair with soft cusions
- Group Chairman's Hat

None of which would be found with a current search for chair.

And while we're at it, don't start the search at the currently selected item. Start with the item immediately after it. Right now, to keep searching, we have to manually click the next item and type the letters again. We should be able to just hit return to jump to the next match. (And here's hoping that this feature isn't already in there, since I only just thought of it now and haven't made sure of its lack... I'd feel sheepish if it was, but happy it's there, I guess. ;))

Also, the only way to search through many nested sub-folders is to open them all by hand first. The search should work on closed folders as well. If I've opened them all by hand just to make the find work, I've already done most of the work myself and probably found what I'm looking for. Not really a time saver.
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
10-25-2004 17:01
They should just tie in the proposed ForSale search into the inventory too.