itkach / aard2-android

Aard2 for Android, a simple dictionary app
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Quick-filter for the result view #52

Open Snaptags opened 8 years ago

Snaptags commented 8 years ago

Lightning fast as the aard2 is, I prefer keeping ALL my slob files active all the time. This works perfectly well for complex words, but not that well for „simple“ search terms, where I get hundreds of hits.

It would be really handy to be able to filter the result view, i.e. long press on a result row will hide all results from this slob, but only for the current search. Entering a new search term would reset the filter.

Look at this example:

results

P.S. Maybe an optional „match whole words only“ would help here, too… I tried adding a space after my search term, which did not change the result list.

itkach commented 8 years ago

I like the idea to make it easier to filter lookup results by dictionaries. Maybe long tap on a list item can highlight all results from corresponding dictionary and activate action bar with options to show results from this dictionary only or all dictionaries but this one. If done like this, perhaps color-coding results as described in #53 won't be necessary? I'll experiment with this when I have time.

Snaptags commented 8 years ago

Sounds great. This one would be the bigger improvement, the color-coding is just a nice-to-have :-)