Project Selector

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Goal

Enhance the project selection experience, and facilitate additional "layers" of projects.

Motivation

Projects are rather boring looking right now, and wouldn't scale to also selecting packages for assets or shots.

Implementation

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Trying the QComboBox.setEditable(True) which enables a default QCompleter. But found that the view associated with the combo box is limited in width to the associated QLineEdit, which is problematic. I also had trouble with the height of the view, which is a QListView, in that it didn't show all items for whatever reason.

Rather than fighting this, I'll separate the responsibilities into (1) a typing mechanism and (2) a selection mechanism. The typing hooks into the selection, by automatically selecting closest-match to what is typed, much like how I would have expected the default mechanism to work.

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Implemented.

• Underline and cursor change on hover
• Keyboard navigation
• Text select, with auto-completion

Click on project icon, plus type

Type and navigate

Double-TAB to re-select project, and continue editing. Arrow keys to switch from list, standard hotkeys like CTRL+A to select all and HOME to move to start of line works as expected.

This took far too long, so I'm delaying the tree view and icons till next time.

In order to facilitate this behavior, as an added bonus projects are now fetched up-front, whereas before they were fetched on-demand. I initially thought fetching all versions of a project would be too costly, but have found that it's near instance. The benefit is that we're able to benefit from package metadata for a project in the GUI now, such as an icon (and label). For next time.