SamS;201675 Wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I downloaded your Lazy Search plugin and enjoyed your informative
> website about the feature.
>
> I am feeling really stupid, but I have to ask: when I used Lazy
> Search, I type the number keys on the remote, but only numbers show up
> and are searchable. No letters, even with multiple presses of the
> buttons. What am I doing wrong?
(Hope you don't mind me answering this, Stuart)
Hi Sams,
The behaviour you describe is the way Lazy Search is intended to work.
In fact, if it worked by cycling through the letters with each key
press, that would be no different to the standard search
functionality.
The whole point of LazySearch is it cuts down the number of key presses
required for a search by working a bit like predictive text on a mobile
phone.
As an example, say I was looking for a song containing the word "five".
Using traditional search (that rotates through each letter on a button
per keypress), after selecting search and "song", I'd press the
following sequence of keys:
3,3,3 ("f")
4,4,4 ("i")
8,8,8 ("v")
3,3 ("e")
That's 11 key presses
Using lazy search, I can just press:
3,4,8,3
That's 4 key presses - quite a difference.
The difference in usability (as you noticed) is that the display cannot
show the letters that are being searched for, because that sequence
covers a few combinations - each number represents 3 or 4 letters
(that's why you just see the numbers on the screen). The vast majority
of those combinations, though are very unlikely to retrieve any songs,
as they don't make any sense (for the above numbers, it will also
search for "dgtd","egtd","fdgd" etc.)
Hope that helps. I guess Stuart could explain it much better!
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