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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002255 | MMW v4 | Other | public | 2005-12-13 07:48 | 2009-02-21 04:59 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Fixed in Version | 3.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0002255: Auto-complete messes up capitalization | ||||
| Description | Well described at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6877 The auto-completion is sometimes replacing what I have typed by something of a different case, and there's no way to cancel this auto-replace. Suppose that I have an album named "MEMORIES OF THE ALHAMBRA". I don't like the name in capital letters, so I go to the properties to edit it. When I have typed enough characters, such as "Memories of t", they are automatically replaced by the upper-case name. The only way to work-around this is to type everything but the first character, then add the first character in the end! | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1189 | ||||
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Well, I know about this and agree it can be annoying in some cases. On the other hand, it's very useful in other cases. If you rely on auto-complete, you can simply start typing artist name and don't case about pressing Shift at all. So, we have two possible approaches, both with some pros and cons. - Proposed: Better when user needs to modify capitalization, but less effective when capitalization of artists in collection is more or less correct. - Current: Actually vice versa. |
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I suppose that you're right--with the current implementation, it's debatable as to whether there's any advantage one way or the other. I guess that this points out that our current implementation might need a bit of improvement so as to satisfy both cases. i.e. an implementation that: -allows the user to choose the current capitalization -allows the user to type alternate capitalization One implementation that I'm aware of that accomplishes this is the 'url bar' in firefox: the user starts typing and matches to the text appear in a dropdown. As the user types more and more, the number of matching options in the dropdown decreases until only one remains. At any point, the user presses the 'down' arrow to choose the presented auto-complete option. This probably too complex to pursue at this point. |
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Raising priority to Urgent. This issue crops up repeatedly in the forums. |
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Assigning to Petr for a review of what can we do about it. I think that it should work as Rusty described, i.e. there will still remain a dropdown when user could browse all available artists (or other entities), but suggestions shouldn't be modified in the edit line automatically, but only be shown below in some kind of a list box. |
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Auto-complete now don't replace characters case you typed. |
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Implemented 'firefox'-like helper so user can type value manually or use this helper (it'll appear automatically). Will be in 1189. |
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verified 1224 |
