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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:12

has anyone out there in my socials ever built an "Open Quickly…" UI?

i've been looking over Xcode's Open Quickly UI and it's… interesting.

and i've been contrasting it to the Spotlight Cmd-Space UI. also interesting.

they look pretty similar. and they behave mostly the same. but there are tons of quirks in both. and not the same.

just curious if anyone's built a canonical version of this sort of UI. otherwise i'm afraid i'm heading down a world of custom UI hurt and i just can't even.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:17

quirk 1:

in spotlight the table shows a gray highlight and the text entry gets the primary selection and first responder.

in Open Quickly both the text AND the table view get a primary selection color

wait! wat!?! -- which is first responder?

i don't even know.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:18

quirk 2:

in spotlight typing tab moves the primary selection from the text to the table.

in Open Quickly typing tab does nothing. both items remain co-primary or something.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:21

in both typing left/right arrow moves the selection point and typing up/down arrow moves the tableview selection.

that's not quirky. that's actually nice. each item in the responder chain acts on the events appropriate to itself and then passes other events onward.

but still kinda weird that some arrows move one thing and some move the other.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:23

quirk 3:

in Spotlight typing Cmd-Up/Cmd-Down moves the table-view selection up and down by a whole section.

in Open Quickly typing Cmd-Up moves the insertion point to the beginning of the text. but (sub-quirk -- calling it #4) typing Cmd-Down doesn't seem to do anything at all. that just gets swallowed.

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Written by Christian Tietze on 2025-01-09 at 04:30

@isaiah tbh I didn't notice! That's cool

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Written by Christian Tietze on 2025-01-09 at 04:29

@isaiah I maintain and use this: https://github.com/CleanCocoa/FloatingFilter

Very basic interactions, though, because cool stuff like "drilling into" items is an edge case I haven't needed to implement

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:32

@ctietze oh that's brilliant!!! i can't believe i spent so much time thinking about this when i should have just asked here first.

thank you. i'll give it a shot and let you know how it goes.

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Written by Christian Tietze on 2025-01-09 at 04:33

@isaiah I'm overhauling and improving things in about a year or so, maintenance updates only until then. Happy to adapt the package, though!

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:49

@ctietze i’m not positive i’ll end up using it as-is.

i may just use it as an example to see how someone else navigated the challenges.

but even there it’s great to have something to refer to.

but i promise to report/fix/pull-req anything strange.

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Written by Greg Titus on 2025-01-09 at 04:38

@isaiah Looks like you've got an answer with some available code, which is great. If you want another UI example to look at: OmniFocus Quick Open is similar to these.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:52

@gregtitus i’m pretty curious who did it first.

it seems like BBEdit, OmniFocus, and Xcode have all had it almost as long as I can remember.

it’s definitely a nice little bit of UI for any sort of shoebox/project-based app.

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Written by Cédric Luthi on 2025-01-10 at 23:49

@isaiah @gregtitus If I remember correctly Xcode did not have this feature initially. The Code Pilot plugin was required: https://github.com/macoscope/CodePilot

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Written by Steve on 2025-01-10 at 23:52

@0xced @isaiah @gregtitus I’m not sure of the exact UI, but if you’re only looking for open quickly I think codewarrior had it back in the day.

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