Bad management of filters GUI

[Marco Frisan]

• The filters popup chooser, just below the editing text area, does not display the saved filters names. (I think this one is the most important issue of this list)
• In the filter editing text area paste does not work with COMMAND+V, I am forced to use contextual menu.
• Generally: the filter sheet view is not well designed.
• There should be an "Add Filter" button (or "+"); no need to "Save Filter" (it should be automatic function).
• I would completely change the filter UI and move the view to another panel, a separate window (ideally it is better, from a design point of view, since filters are globally shared by all the captures) or a drawer.

I can split this list in to separate issues, if needed. And I would be glad to help you, since I am a Cocoa developer.

[choll]

Hi,

Actually filters are per document which is why I made it a sheet. It would work as a window too though, although the progress bar would have to remain a sheet as the capture window can't be used while the filter is applied. Perhaps a window would be better though because you might want to look at something in the capture while writing the filter.

If you want to fix anything feel free, any help is very welcome. You'll need to do it from the bugfixes branch. It requires the HexFiend framework from Github, and Google breakpad.

[choll]

Fix issue 51: Fix pasting into filter window, write filters to disk after any edit, not just on clean shutdown, fix 'apply' button being incorrectly disabled after filterload. Either won't fix or can't reproduce for other items.

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