Successive search states cause blinking/flashing

[David Siegel]

As the set of search results changes, the groups/items displayed in the Dash should smoothly grow or shrink. Currently, the Dash flashes when search results change.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

The underlying problem is that in order to quickly have some working code to show I am currently calling model.clear() on my Dee.Model in the -place daemons.

The correct solution is to not clear the model completely, but scanning it and removing stuff that is no longer in the search results (or add any new items).

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

I am in the progress of fixing this, but it's a multi-step plan to fix this "The Right Way" (TM).

The first step is to get add an Dee.Index API to libdee that can be used to do key based access on a Dee.Model. I am working on this right now.

Given this index we can compute the diff of the results and the existing model reasonably effectively, and then only add/remove hits corresponding to the diff.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

Currently in trunk we smoothly shrink the result set as you type... A similar approach can be used to grow it dynamically as well... When I get around to that :-)

So consider this bug 50% done :-)

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

This needs work on Unity-side too.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

I added fixes for this in the last release. Please re-open if you still get flashing when searching