{"id":295,"date":"2009-02-02T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2009\/02\/02\/the-new-search-and-filter-field\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T12:21:02","slug":"the-new-search-and-filter-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2009\/02\/02\/the-new-search-and-filter-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The new search and filter field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked a lot about wanting to improve the platform fidelity of the MATLAB Desktop. Along those lines, I think it&#8217;s also important to improve the consistency of the MATLAB Desktop. In R2008b, we&#8217;ve introduced a new search and filter widget that will help do both of these things. <\/p>\n<p>The search and filter field is used to help narrow the scope of items that your looking at. I refer to it as a search <i>and<\/i> filter field because sometimes it&#8217;s more natural to think of it as a filter (e.g. when your narrowing the set of functions visible in the Function Browser), while other times it&#8217;s more natural to think of it as a search (e.g. when your looking through the documentation in the Help Browser). Either way, this widget will help you find things.<\/p>\n<p>This style of widget is available on both Mac and Windows, so we&#8217;ve taken great care in making sure that it matches what you&#8217;d expect on those platforms. Here&#8217;s what the MATLAB search and filter field looks like on Mac and Windows:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_searchtextfield\/mac_and_windows.png\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And here are all the places you&#8217;ll see the search and filter widget in R2008b:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<b>Current Directory Browser<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_searchtextfield\/current_directory.png\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<b>Function Browser<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_searchtextfield\/function_browser.png\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<b>Help Browser<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_searchtextfield\/help_browser.png\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<b>Configuration Editor<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/ken_orr_searchtextfield\/configuration_editor.png\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Using a platform specific widget like this consistently across the MATLAB Desktop makes it easier to use the product. You won&#8217;t have to learn a different idiom for each Desktop component, but can instead pull from the shared idiom of the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked a lot about wanting to improve the platform fidelity of the MATLAB Desktop. Along those lines, I think it&#8217;s also important to improve the consistency of the MATLAB Desktop. In&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2009\/02\/02\/the-new-search-and-filter-field\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,4,34,11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}