Wait a bit more before applying a changed variable filter string in OMEdit

[Francesco Casella]

As reported in ticket:5273#comment:3, if you use variable filtering in a model with thousand of variables (which is normal in real-life industrial models) you wait a lot of time waiting the filter is applied each time you add a character in the filter.

I would personally suggest to implement the following behaviour:

• the filter is applied immediately if the enter key is pressed
• otherwise it is applied after 2 seconds have elapsed from the last key pressed

I think this would make the feature a lot more usable. Requiring the user to press enter would be disorienting for users who are used to see the filter acting without such action, and would be puzzled to see it not working. @Andrea.Bartolini, do you agree?

It would be nice to have it in 1.13.1, as long as it doesn't delay the release, otherwise let's move it to 1.14.0.

[Andrea Bartolini]

I agree with Francesco.

Maybe also useful to have a flag in the setting parameters to allow the user to change the time delay, but this can be done in the 1.14.0.

[Adeel Asghar]

Done in e519aa1/OMEdit.

[Adeel Asghar]

O yeah and the interval is customizable via the settings.

[Francesco Casella]

Thanks Adeel, we appreciate this :)