appuifw.selection_list issues

[barrueco]

Hi guys,
first of all i like to thank you, for your wonderful work you are doing
and please forgive my English.
I have 2 questions about appuifw.selection_list.

1) I create a big list of unicodes and i like to save current list position so, that when the user
goes back to list, the first selected item to be, the last that he was in it.
Something like ......set_list method we have in Listbox objects.
Is it possible ???
What ever have i tried on that, i recieve a nasty Python System Error -50
I really liked the search option that appuifw.selection_list offers.

2) The other issue is, that the search field appears after pressing a letter key.
But my device is a 5800 xm and it does not have a hardware keyboard.
How could i enable the search field without pressing any key ?
Something like appuifw.multi_selection_list offers, when the style sets to 'checkbox'.
What are you suggesting.?
Thanks in advance...

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi,

1) I create a big list of unicodes and i like to save current list position so, that when the user
goes back to list, the first selected item to be, the last that he was in it.
Something like ......set_list method we have in Listbox objects.
Is it possible ???
What ever have i tried on that, i recieve a nasty Python System Error -50
I really liked the search option that appuifw.selection_list offers.

Sadly that isn't possible. At least the documentation doesn't say anything about it and I don't know of any improvised solution.

2) The other issue is, that the search field appears after pressing a letter key.
But my device is a 5800 xm and it does not have a hardware keyboard.
How could i enable the search field without pressing any key ?
Something like appuifw.multi_selection_list offers, when the style sets to 'checkbox'.

I guess that's an oversight. You'll have to wait for the PyS60 development team to comment on this.

[gaba88]

2) The other issue is, that the search field appears after pressing a letter key.
But my device is a 5800 xm and it does not have a hardware keyboard.
How could i enable the search field without pressing any key ?
Something like appuifw.multi_selection_list offers, when the style sets to 'checkbox'.
What are you suggesting.?
Thanks in advance...

hello barrueco

Just to add bogdan.

i have not used PyS60 in 5800 and if you feel that this is a sort of bug then you can report that here.

Hope this helps you.

Cheers,
Gaba88

[barrueco]

Hi,Sadly that isn't possible. At least the documentation doesn't say anything about it and I don't know of any improvised solution.

what a pity!
So, i believe that the appuifw.query method is the only way.
Since i am a beginner programmer, is there any function or example to perform a
simple but respectable search in my unicode list, without the user have to insert the exact word
that he's looking for ?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

You can implement your own search:

#The list of unicode strings
strings = [u"string1", u"string2"] #etc.

#Create an empty list that will store the search results
results = []

#Ask the user for the search term
search = appuifw.query(u"Enter text", 'text')

#For every string in the list, check which begin with what the user entered
#and store them in the results
for i in strings:
  if i.startswith(search):
    results.append(i)

[barrueco]

You can implement your own search:

#The list of unicode strings
strings = [u"string1", u"string2"] #etc.

#Create an empty list that will store the search results
results = []

#Ask the user for the search term
search = appuifw.query(u"Enter text", 'text')

#For every string in the list, check which begin with what the user entered
#and store them in the results
for i in strings:
  if i.startswith(search):
    results.append(i)

Very nice bogdan !!!
Exactly what i was searching for.
I was totally lost in those Searching Listsoptions.
Thanks a lot.