Re: Implementing overview search function in a PopupMenu?

[Amy C <mathematical coffee gmail com>]

As a first attempt, I created a PopupMenuItem that contains a
SearchTab (sure, widths and such are all off but I just want a
proof-of-concept to start from):

SearchMenuItem.prototype = {
    __proto__: PopupMenu.PopupBaseMenuItem.prototype,
    _init: function () {
        PopupMenu.PopupBaseMenuItem.prototype._init.call(this,
{reactive: false});
        /* display a SearchTab inside */
        this._searchTab = new ViewSelector.SearchTab();
        this.addActor(this._searchTab.title, {expand: true, span: -1})
/* add the search box */
        this.addActor(this._searchTab.page, {expand: true, span: -1})
/* add the results page (I think) */
    }
}

Then I add a new SearchMenuItem() to my popup menu and call
`searchMenuItem.addSearchProvider(new
ContactDisplay.ContactSearchProvider());`. I also set the width of the
item to 1000 pixels just to make sure there's space to display
results.

When I search a term, I can press 'enter' and have the corresponding
search result launched, so I know the search is working in the
background.
However, nothing displays in the popup menu item where I've added
`this._searchTab.page`. (but the menu gets fatter as if it were
allocating space were results).

What can I do to get these results to show in the menu? Am I on the right track?
(I guess down the track I will implement my own ContactSearchProvider
similar to the ContactDisplay one, except that it returns
PopupMenuItems. And perhaps implement my own  SearchResultDisplay that
is a PopupMenuSection?)

cheers

On 25 June 2012 12:19, Amy C <mathematical coffee gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a little extension that shows your contacts (from
> gnome-contacts) in the menu of a PanelMenu.SystemStatusButton.
> (The vague idea is you can chat from the menu/open up a chat window by
> clicking on the contact/other stuff).
>
> I've added a little St.Entry that lets you type in some terms to
> search for contacts, and the idea is that the menu will then filter
> out all the contacts matching the search terms.
>
> It has just struck me that all I want is the `contactDisplay` search
> provider in the Overview, but to display the results as items in a
> PopupMenu instead of the results you get in the Overview.
>
> Is there some way I can simply harness the code from search.js,
> contactDisplay.js, searchDisplay.js etc to do the search functionality
> for me?
>
> I notice that in contactSearchProvider.js, all ContactSearchProvider
> does is implement a `createResultActor` method that returns a 'new
> Contact(..)' (which is the St.Bin holding the contact's avatar, alias,
> etc), and also implements `createResultContainerActor` that makes an
> icon grid in which to show the results.
>
> I'd like to do something similar where my `createResultActor` returns
> a `new ContactMenuItem(...)` which is just a PopupMenuItem, and
> instead of the results being added to an icon grid, they're added to
> the PopupMenu I specify.
>
> Is this feasible? Which classes would I need to override to achieve
> this? SearchTab, ContactDisplay, ... (I suppose I could have a 'tab'
> being a PopupMenuSection that just gets hidden/shown as necessary?)
>
> cheers!