Suggestion: 'stop search button'

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Suggestion: 'stop search button'

Post by Epzilon » 2004-03-30 14:03

Hi there.

Is it possible for you 'guys' to make a stop search altarnative? If you search on 'britney spears' for example alot of files are showing. And you see one of her songs that you want to download, but sometimes it is impossible to click on that song because it searches for even more files and you can't click on that particalur song because it's scrolling downwards and the list is getting bigger and bigger. It's pretty annoying.

What if you had a 'stop search' button to click on when you have found what you were looking for and can download the following files that is shown on the list?

- Thx
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Post by Todi » 2004-03-30 15:07

Why not just wait a few seconds until the searchresults stop coming in? It doesn't take that long you know..

However, "stop search" wouldn't work, since the search is already sent, but a "stop showing searchresults" could work.. ;)

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Post by Epzilon » 2004-03-30 15:47

Sometimes it is frustrating to wait to the search list to stop up. Often it can be hell of a long list. If there had been a 'stop searching further' button it would been easier. :P

Perhaps pressing the search button once would start the search and pressing it one more time could cancel the search when you have found what you were looking for.

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Post by cyberal » 2004-03-30 15:58

I like the idea of a stop button.. however.. it's a little hard to accually stop the search, sure. one could just ignore the results that pop in.. but let's say you switch options to search another hub and search for the same thing... then results would start to pop in from the old seach too right?
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Post by Epzilon » 2004-03-30 16:11

cyberal wrote:one could just ignore the results that pop in..
It's a problem when you find a file almost at once and when you try to download it, it dissappear downwards because new files comes and take the place in the filelist above the file you want to download.
All I'm saying it could have been easier just to abort the search and use the current files in the list to choose which one you want to download.

It could have some inet traffic as well on the hubs? [/I don't have a clue what I'm talking about]

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Post by Borlag » 2004-03-30 16:27

hmm, wouldn't it just be simpler not to search for something that will most likely end up giving you hundreds or even thousands of responses to your search?

Example: You want to search for that Britney Spears you mentioned, type in "Britney Spears songname" (don't know her songs, or refuse to admit that I'd know any :lol: ). Atleast then all results will be correct and it doesn't matter which one you take as you'll end up with the right song anyway.
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Post by acidflair » 2004-03-30 16:53

that little whore being at the middle of another scandle, lol..


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Post by BSOD2600 » 2004-03-30 19:05

I too would like a feature like this. Like hitting escape would stop it / stop showing results (bottom line, stop DC++ from using 100% which prevents you from doing anything in it until the seach is complete).

I run into this problem when I do a too broad search (.wav and forgetting to specify a min share size) and then subsequently have to wait for 20 seconds while DC++ returns a shitload of results.

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Post by cyberal » 2004-03-31 04:06

Epzilon wrote:
cyberal wrote:one could just ignore the results that pop in..
It's a problem when you find a file almost...
I meant that DC++ should ignore the search results that it recieves from other users.. and don't show them in the list. Just because you hit a stop button other users don't stop sending you their results!
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Post by Wisp » 2004-03-31 04:43

I would also like a counter to tell how many results he has found..

not very essential, but it would be nice

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Post by Atomic Jo » 2004-03-31 10:15

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I use an old code from sarf. I added the search counter. Off course even if there is the stop search button ("Arrêter la recherche") the results continue to arrive to DC++, as some guys said before me. They just are nomore displayed in the searchframe.

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Post by [DSL]Empshadow » 2004-03-31 10:22

Why even need a stop search at all?
Most Hubs let you start a new search just 10 seconds after your previous search initiated. Are you telling me that you can't wait that 10 seconds to start a new search?
Man, Talk about impatient! LOL :D

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Post by Todi » 2004-03-31 10:25

[DSL]Empshadow wrote:Are you telling me that you can't wait that 10 seconds to start a new search?
This has absolutely nothing to do with the original suggestion. Stop trolling.

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Post by Epzilon » 2004-03-31 15:20

I run into this problem when I do a too broad search (.wav and forgetting to specify a min share size) and then subsequently have to wait for 20 seconds while DC++ returns a shitload of results.
This can be very frustrating and that's why a 'stop search' button is a good idea. It seems like you got my point and I hope there may be a stop button in next update. ^^

...that's probably to much to ask for. :)

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Post by Guitarm » 2004-03-31 15:31

Epzilon wrote:...that's probably to much to ask for. :)
Ok, It seems to me that the most natural thing to do here is to put in an RFE at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus and now that you're eager why don't you supply a code snippet that solves the problem?
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