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Solution for long dropdowns #2889

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Gymnasiast opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 4 comments
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Solution for long dropdowns #2889

Gymnasiast opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 4 comments
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@Gymnasiast
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This is split off from #2403.

@IntelOrca's original comment:

I think large dropdowns are a common problem. Particularly when you enable all vehicles for any ride. So maybe a generic window for selecting things from long lists complete with search feature?

@daihakken's original comment:

Dropdown with scroll bar and type to locate feature would be also great to that.

@Gymnasiast Gymnasiast changed the title Solution for long dropdown Solution for long dropdowns Feb 5, 2016
@duncanspumpkin duncanspumpkin added this to the v0.0.4 - third stable milestone Feb 5, 2016
@duncanspumpkin duncanspumpkin added the enhancement An improvement to an existing feature (no alteration). label Feb 5, 2016
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I find dropdowns with scrollbars somewhat user unfriendly as you can accidentally move your mouse off the dropdown causing to hide. Although with mouse scroll ability it can work reasonably well.

However should there be lets say 100 items, then not even a scrollable dropdown is a good idea. It would have to be a listbox of some kind and maybe the ability to search.

Another case we might have for this is when we have custom music. The player might have many music tracks which would be too many for the existing dropdown.

And lastly, another UX enhancement to these ideas are to have recently used. Often when you select something you will select it again soon (so recently used items at the top of a list are useful).

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Ryder17z commented Feb 8, 2016

Sometimes it could be useful to categorize the drop down menu into submenus.

Anyhow searching in drop down menus would be great

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I think the track list approach would work here. It already does everything we need: it allows the user to pick one item, and it supports scrolling.

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Gymnasiast commented Jul 25, 2017

Now #5975 is merged, I'm going to consider this solved.
Of course, there is always room for improvement.

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