Chris Muller <afunkyobject at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:02:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris Muller <afunkyobject at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [ENH] BetterFindMethod-jon
> To: Squeak List <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: chris at funkyobjects.org, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> This is how Squeak menus work, isn't it?  Except without the timer (what's the
> main benefit of that?).

This is more a concept for the list but could work for menus, too.
Notice, you don't see any input, the list jumps to the location without
pressing enter or return.
The timer is for the system to know when to start a new seach
or narrow down a allready started one. 

Karl

> Karl wrote:
> 
> I really like the way the Macintosh finder does this: 
> You start typing the name and the list jumps to that
> location. After each letter there is a time counter. 
> So if you look for 'findItem' 
> you can type 'f', the list jumps to first item on 'f',
> and if you type the next letter within the time it will
> jump to 'fi' and this way you narrow down to the item you 
> are looking for.