feature/add-searching-functionality

[bee1850]

Hey, I added a search functionality in the Wildcard Manager Tab and the TXT2IMG Tab.
Its probably not really efficient code at this moment but it works fairly well. It searches into subfolders aswell, if needed.

[bee1850]

I also have added the functionality, that the right editor moves along when scrolling through the list. If needed I can open another Pull Request for it, but its quite short, so i can also just post it here :)

[akx]

Thanks, this seems like a great feature! However... couldn't we do this purely in the frontend? I mean, the frontend already knows the entire wildcard hierarchy, so doing the tree filtering there seems more efficient (and would feel snappier to the user)? :)

[bee1850]

Thanks, this seems like a great feature! However... couldn't we do this purely in the frontend? I mean, the frontend already knows the entire wildcard hierarchy, so doing the tree filtering there seems more efficient (and would feel snappier to the user)? :)

Hey, yes I think Frontend only would be possible, I just did it in the backend to no not completely change the way things work in the extension, which was mostly backend based interaction. On the other hand: I have over 3000 wildcards in my folder and it isn't snappy at all for me. I have exams right now, so I wouldn't be able to do it in the next couple of days.

[akx]

@bee1850 Best of luck with your exams! 💪

[bee1850]

Coming back to this, I think there is two reasons that go against doing this manually:

1. The txt2img tab currently does not have any custom js and I dont know how to embed it there
2. I actually think it would generate more overhead to try to iterate through the html tree instead of iterating the actual tree object as we would have to get all elements that have the id tree-leaf and then iterate through their children to determine what child element were looking at. It feels easier and more efficient for me to iterate through the field.

As I said, I don't have any problems with speed or any lags when searching stuff. (I have over 2000-3000 individual wildcard files in my directory)

Another thing would be that the search is dependent on the html elements instead of the tree object. This would break things easier when adding stuff or modifying the extension itself. I tried to do as few modifications to the original code as possible so that in the case of a rework it would not be as much of a hassle to get the search working again.

[bee1850]

Any Thoughts on this? @akx