Android Question B4XSearchTemplate - strange List-behavior - Bug?

Herbert32 said:

Does someone have an Idea, why this happens and how i can solve this problem?

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This is how the b4xSearchTemplate is working.
It lists all matching Entries.

DonManfred said:

This is how the b4xSearchTemplate is working.
It lists all matching Entries.

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yes - but it should not reduce the visible lines inside an item in the list of matching items

look at the first item, which starts with '1 Schutzgasschweißgerät....' :

typing 'bac' there are 6 lines visible
typing 'ba' there are 2 lines visible
typing 'back' there are 3 lines visible
typing 'backs' there are 2 lines visible
typing 'backst' there are 3 lines visible

yes - but it should not reduce the visible lines inside an item in the list of matching items

look at the first item, which starts with '1 Schutzgasschweißgerät....' :

typing 'bac' there are 6 lines visible
typing 'ba' there are 2 lines visible
typing 'back' there are 3 lines visible
typing 'backs' there are 2 lines visible
typing 'backst' there are 3 lines visible

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Obviously, all of these items which shown contain the search key, some keys of them are just out of the visible range of the item. you can check them.
such as

teddybear said:

Obviously, all of these items which shown contain the search key, some keys of them are just out of the visible range of the item. you can check them.
such as
View attachment 158556

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yes - i know this - the value of the item is correct but the 'visible range', which i called 'visible lines' always changes for the matched items with each character i add to the search-field.

this for sure is not the expected behavior.

the user needs to see the complete text of each matched item to be able to select the correct one by touching the item in the list.

initially after .setitems all items are in the correct size - but after the first character in search-field the height of the items changes - also after removal of all characters in the searchfield the height of the items is different from original

i tried to modify b4xsearchtemplate.bas but without acceptable success.

Herbert32 said:

i tried to modify b4xsearchtemplate.bas but without acceptable success.

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Try this b4xsearchtemplate.bas, is it the behavior you want ?

teddybear said:

Try this b4xsearchtemplate.bas, is it the behavior you want ?

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thank you for trying to help.

No, it has the same behavior

i'm sorry - you are right - your modification works - at my first test i loaded a wrong template.

I made same modification by myself before - but at that time, i don't know why, it has been much slower by using


anyway... - actally it seems to be fast enough

thank you for your kind help