WHAT????

I don't think it's anything to do with Hamming distances. I think the problem is that it's auto-completing the entry in the list to a guess at what you might want, probably because at some point all the things in the list match that prefix. You may notice that there are a bunch of extra characters you didn't type in the top section. But then the list changes out from underneath it, and it doesn't compensate. If you hit backspace when it's doing this, it will delete the extra characters and then will match what you'd expect. So this seems like a mismatch between the general search dialog behaviour of expanding out things and the parcel load dialog's trick of populating the list in the background. 

I've created AR 50285 for this.

At 02:54 PM 2/15/2006, Boris Popov wrote:
  

Yup. Weird. Joerg had wrote about this couple of days ago,

<quote>

1) In a stock VW 7.4 image go to "System -> Load Parcels Named." 

2) Type 'advan' into the find field. Notice it finds 'All Advanced Tool'
great so far.

3) Type an additional 'c' and notice 'All Advanced Tools' disappears!


Even better if you initially type 'Advanc' it will find 'All Advanced Tool'
but once you add an e it won't. Now given some blogging about Hamming
distances a few months ago I'm guess that is what is going on. So I suppose
it is working as designed, however the behavior is a bit counter-intuitive.

</quote>

Hope this helps,

Cheers!

-Boris

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-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Griggs [[hidden email]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:45 AM
To: VW NC
Subject: WHAT????

Tried to load Heeg's GHSpeedUpXMLParser. Opened the load 
parcel named dialog. Didn't remember the whole name. I 
remembered the "Speed" part.

Typed
S...
a whole bunch of parcels appear. Looks like anything with an 
S in the name, upper or lower p...
winnowed it down to just SpecWrapper
paused
pondered
canceled
spent 5 minutes wading through file structure to prove to my 
self that the parcel WAS there tried again Spe...
still just SpecWrapper
Spee...
ahh, there it is

This is not good. Users expect consistent behavior. And this is not.

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