Re: [Gnumed-devel] Using timers with the word wheel/autofill fields

[Karsten Hilbert]

Richard,

Horst has decreed that all developer's posts should go to
address@hidden from now on. The "old" developers list at
sourceforge is being phased out and reused as an "interested
parties" list.

I CC'ed you and posted my response to gnu.org. May I kindly
ask you to direct responses to gnu.org as well ? Thank you.
This will clear up confusion.

On to other things:

> I noticed in the testdb which searches for australian postcodes that it is 
> real slow, and seems to be doing a search at every key press. 

> In my VB programs I always used a timer and didn't do any search until a 
> predefined  (user defined dependant on user typing speed) period of millisecs 
> had passed.
This made it into the ideas section of the word wheel code
under development.

A similar albeit less flexible effect can be achieved by
judicious use of match retrieval thresholds.

Karsten
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