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>>1316
>I'm thinking of adding a real-time search so you can type into a text box and the results update automatically
I randomly felt like adding this to my file text search tool yesterday, and coincidentally yesterday was exactly 1 year away from that post. I also added other little quality of life things. The text input boxes are still fake (only supports typing and backspace, no selections or anything).

You can save paths and search queries by pressing the square on the right, right click opens a dropdown menu. They're saved into text files so you can also edit those if you want. I want to add a way to manage blacklist/whitelist for file names or extensions, but I'm still thinking about how to do that because I can imagine it being a pain to manage them.

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>>2070
I JUST came up with another quality of life thing: the gray path is shortened so it starts from the first folder.

Looks like some interesting stuff, Anon. Nice work.

>>2070
Updates:
- Made the text fields work properly. No mouse interaction though.
- When you type into the path field, it now shows a list of other folders, and pressing enter will autocomplete into the closest folder.
- Added a settings file, so you can configure some things. For example when you click a text match, you can launch a custom command so you can make it open in different programs.
- Added scrollbar (visual only).
I put it up on my website: https://sundee.neocities.org/stst/index.html

>>2073
Naicu. What language did you program your search tool in?

I hope nobody tried to download that because I fucked up the filename so the link didn't work. It's fixed now.

>2074
C. Far from perfect, but still closest to my ideal programming language.
Coincidentally, I have an entire article rambling about changes that I'd make to C: https://sundee.neocities.org/programminglanguage/index.html

>>2075
Thanks! I might look into it then. Cheers.

>>2075
I noticed on your page:
https://sundee.neocities.org/c/simplegame_sdl_linux#setup

You seem to have 'images' & 'audio' terms swapped?
For images: SDL_Mixer, install with sudo apt install libsdl2-mixer-dev
For audio: SDL_Image, install with sudo apt install libsdl2-image-dev

>>2076
Look into C? "Approach with caution" is what I would say, it's not for everyone. It's extremely difficult to recommend any language because everyone cares about different things, I used Javascript for several years at first and I doubt I would have wanted to use C back then. But even if you desire more control than Javascript on a web browser, there's several levels of depth between that and C.

>2077
Yep that's wrong, good find, thanks.

I don't know how I keep screwing up these quotes.
>>2077