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Add alphabetical selection to item picker menus

I'm thinking of the types of menu where you're choosing which item to put into an sdb, or to donate, or which seeds to plant, or which food to feed a piggie. All of those sorts of things where you have a grid of item icons arranged in alphabetical order, and you use the arrow keys or the mouse to pick one to use. 

For all of these types of menu, I would like to be able to select the item just by starting to type its name. Once you'd typed enough letters to unambiguously distinguish it from anything else of that type that you're carrying ("Al" to distinguish Allspice from Abbasid Ribs, for example, if that was what you were carrying), you would just hit enter as normal to Make Stuff Happen. 

Maybe if you hit enter too soon, the menu would just shrink to the few items that would match the letters you had typed (so if you just went "A" *enter*, the menu would shrink to Allspice and Abbasid Ribs and you'd have to narrow it down some more.) And if you typoed, you could type escape to cancel the selection but it would leave the menu open so you could try again.

Don't take away the arrow keys or the mouse, just add another method of selection for people like me :)

Posted 89 days ago by Trixie Leitz Subscriber! | Permalink