[Idea] Search against IP and mapname too?

[The-Gig]

Search "servers" checks against server name, plus name and gametype (or was it gamename?) cvars. Very well.
But I was wondering, what about checking against IP address and mapname, too?
Examples:

• You know the start of the ip address of a server, you type in the first numbers and boom... there's your server(s).
• You want to know if there is some server currently running a specific map you like.

If you like the current search more, I guess you might add an "extended search" flag in Settings, which would enable the search to look into these extra fields too.

(I don't remember whether I already asked you this in the past... If that's the case, please forgive me).

[The-Gig]

Up... ^_^
This would have helped me today when I was doing some testing with favorites.
I workarounded by testing with the first servers in the list, but I still felt the missing of this feature.

[torhus]

One way to improve this feature would be to remove the Server and Player radio buttons, and add a "Select" button instead. This would open a pop-up menu with checkboxes, something like this:

--------------------------
|  Select all    [   ]  |
|  Server name   [ x ]  |
|  Map name      [   ]  |
|  Game type     [   ]  |
|  IP address    [   ]  |
|  Location      [   ]  |
|  Game cvar     [ x ]  |
|  Gamename cvar [ x ]  |
|  Player name   [   ]  |
|                       |
|      [Done]           |
-------------------------

[The-Gig]

That would be the most flexible solution.
A few considerations:

• If your recommended default is different from "all", would you think you would add a "reset" button?
• The search for "game type" would check against both number and descriptions from games.ini?
• The problem of having a separate window to view the list is that you have to click somewhere to know where you are searching into... But I guess integrating all in the main window might take up too much space? Uhm... Maybe the main window may show something like 3/8 (or 8/8 if all are selected) to let you know how many options are selected, and a mouseover on those numbers may show a preview of which fields you have currently selected, without having to click the Customize button?
• Keeping some way to quicky switch from "player search" to "custom settings" and vice-vera may be nice, to not having to edit all your settings every time you just want to search for a player.

[torhus]

That would be the most flexible solution. A few considerations:

* If your recommended default is different from "all", would you think you would add a "reset" button?

Maybe 🤔

 >     * The search for "game type" would check against both number and descriptions from games.ini?

Yes, I think so. Not sure if there needs to be a game type search, since it's easy to just sort on game type.

 * The problem of having a separate window to view the list is that you have to click somewhere to know where you are searching into... But I guess integrating all in the main window might take up too much space? Uhm... Maybe the main window may show something like 3/8 (or 8/8 if all are selected) to let you know how many options are selected, and a mouseover on those numbers may show a preview of which fields you have currently selected, without having to click the Customize button?

I'll add a tooltip to the search field that shows the current setting, at least.

* Keeping some way to quicky switch from "player search" to "custom settings" and vice-vera may be nice, to not having to edit all your settings every time you just want to search for a player.

Maybe there should be some shortcuts, similiar to what is there now. I'll think about it.

It looks like this at the moment, just need to clean it up and add the actual functionality...

[The-Gig]

Yes, a few shortcuts similar to current modes, plus a Custom mode, sound good.
As the Custom mode is meant to be as flexible as possible, I would suggest keeping "game cvar" and "gamename cvar" separated.