feat(search): persist search history across restarts - #643
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Thanks @LSalami — genuinely useful first step, and the core is clean (case-insensitive dedup, cap, most-recent-first; Enter-to-search preserved; the wxTextEntry cross-cast is the right way to keep the existing call sites working). A few things to tighten before merge, one sizing tweak, and a bigger-picture note on where this ideally heads.
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Don't drop the field's edit context menu. The Name field was a
CMuleTextCtrl, whose entire purpose is providing the Cut/Copy/Paste/Select-All right-click menu; it's now a plainwxComboBoxwhose only context menu is the new Remember/Clear one, so right-clicking the search box no longer offers paste/copy. Please augment rather than replace — the standard edit items + a separator + the history actions. -
Persist to a dedicated file, not
amule.conf. Search terms are arguably private, and putting them in the main config both bloats it and makes them travel with the file (config backups, and the--amule-config-filepush to amuleweb/amuleapi). eMule keeps them in a dedicatedAC_SearchStrings.datin the config dir; a smallsearchhistory.datmirrors that and keeps the prefs clean. (The enable flag is a real setting, so that one can stay in prefs — see #3.) -
Move the "Remember search history" toggle into Preferences. Right now it's reachable only by right-clicking the field, so it's effectively undiscoverable. It's a persistent setting, so Preferences is where users expect it — put it on a page present in both the monolithic and amulegui builds, since this feature works in both. Keep Clear as the context-menu action (a one-shot action, not a setting).
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Bump the cap. 20 is a bit tight; eMule keeps 30 (
CCustomAutoComplete's default). These are just strings, so matching 30 (or a little more) is free.
Minor / optional
- It's a plain dropdown with no type-ahead — consider
wxComboBox::AutoComplete(...)so the history surfaces as you type (eMule usesACO_AUTOSUGGEST); it also helps discoverability. - Worth stating explicitly that this is query history, not result persistence — see below.
Bigger picture (not asking for it in this PR)
The original #641 also wanted the results persisted, not just the queries. The fuller solution is real search persistence — parameters and the result hits — and eMule already has the blueprint: CSearchList::StoreSearches()/LoadSearches() serialize each open search plus its CSearchFile results to StoredSearches.met on shutdown and restore them on startup. The key detail for us: doing that in amuled (daemon-side) reloads the results back into the searchlist, so a restored hit stays downloadable by hash — meaning searches survive an amuled restart for every client (amulegui and amuleapi), not just the monolithic GUI, with no client-side changes. So this PR is a fine first increment; I'd just frame it as query-history and leave #641 open for the amuled-side result persistence as the follow-up.
…refs toggle, edit menu Addresses all four blocking points from got3nks's review, plus both optional suggestions: 1. Edit context menu restored. Overriding the field's context menu no longer drops Cut/Copy/Paste/Select All -- same custom-Paste-ID idiom as CMuleTextCtrl::OnRightDown (wxMenu over-permits wxID_PASTE, so it gets a manual clipboard-content check), plus a separator, plus the history's own Clear action. 2. Persisted to a dedicated searchhistory.dat (via CTextFile, one term per line) instead of amule.conf -- mirrors eMule's AC_SearchStrings.dat. Query terms no longer bloat the main config or travel with config backups / the --amule-config-file push to amuleweb/amuleapi. 3. "Remember search history" moved into Preferences > General as an ordinary Cfg_Bool checkbox (IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED), same NewCfgItem wiring as every other GUI-behavior toggle on that page. It's a client-side-only setting, so the one checkbox works unchanged in both amule and amuleGUI. The context menu keeps only Clear (a one-shot action, not a setting to toggle from a hidden menu). 4. Cap raised from 20 to 30, matching eMule's CCustomAutoComplete default. Optional, done anyway: - wxComboBox::AutoComplete() wired up (eMule's ACO_AUTOSUGGEST equivalent), re-armed after every load/record/clear so it always reflects the current entry set. - Explicitly framed as *query* history throughout (comments, tooltip) to distinguish it from the separate, not-yet-implemented result persistence that's the rest of amule-org#641. The dedup/move-to-front/cap logic that used to live inline in CSearchDlg::RecordSearchHistory is extracted into a pure function, ApplySearchHistoryEntry() (SearchHistory.h/.cpp), decoupled from wxComboBox/wxConfig specifically so it's unit-testable without a wx event loop -- new SearchHistoryTest covers empty-list insert, reorder of an existing term, case-insensitive dedup, empty-term no-op, and capping (including locking in the actual 30-entry constant). Rebased onto current master; po/ catalogs regenerated as the final step so the diff is just the new/changed strings in sync with the tree. Verified for real: built and ran both amule and amulegui, plus the full unit test suite (27/27 passing, including the new SearchHistoryTest's 7 cases).
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Done in b7a500a — addressed all four blocking points, plus both optional suggestions:
Optional, done anyway:
Also extracted the dedup/move-to-front/cap logic into a pure Rebased onto current master; Verified for real: built and ran both Agreed on leaving #641's result-persistence (StoredSearches.met-equivalent, done daemon-side) as a separate follow-up — happy to pick that up next once this lands. |
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Only thing between this and merge is a mechanical one: the Everything else looks great. One note (not a blocker): the as-you-type autocomplete works as intended on a Linux/GTK build, but on macOS (wx 3.3.3) it doesn't fire — that's a wxWidgets limitation for text/combo-box autocomplete on the macOS port, not anything in this PR. The dropdown surfaces the history on every platform, so there's nothing to change here. |
…refs toggle, edit menu Addresses all four blocking points from got3nks's review, plus both optional suggestions: 1. Edit context menu restored. Overriding the field's context menu no longer drops Cut/Copy/Paste/Select All -- same custom-Paste-ID idiom as CMuleTextCtrl::OnRightDown (wxMenu over-permits wxID_PASTE, so it gets a manual clipboard-content check), plus a separator, plus the history's own Clear action. 2. Persisted to a dedicated searchhistory.dat (via CTextFile, one term per line) instead of amule.conf -- mirrors eMule's AC_SearchStrings.dat. Query terms no longer bloat the main config or travel with config backups / the --amule-config-file push to amuleweb/amuleapi. 3. "Remember search history" moved into Preferences > General as an ordinary Cfg_Bool checkbox (IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED), same NewCfgItem wiring as every other GUI-behavior toggle on that page. It's a client-side-only setting, so the one checkbox works unchanged in both amule and amuleGUI. The context menu keeps only Clear (a one-shot action, not a setting to toggle from a hidden menu). 4. Cap raised from 20 to 30, matching eMule's CCustomAutoComplete default. Optional, done anyway: - wxComboBox::AutoComplete() wired up (eMule's ACO_AUTOSUGGEST equivalent), re-armed after every load/record/clear so it always reflects the current entry set. - Explicitly framed as *query* history throughout (comments, tooltip) to distinguish it from the separate, not-yet-implemented result persistence that's the rest of amule-org#641. The dedup/move-to-front/cap logic that used to live inline in CSearchDlg::RecordSearchHistory is extracted into a pure function, ApplySearchHistoryEntry() (SearchHistory.h/.cpp), decoupled from wxComboBox/wxConfig specifically so it's unit-testable without a wx event loop -- new SearchHistoryTest covers empty-list insert, reorder of an existing term, case-insensitive dedup, empty-term no-op, and capping (including locking in the actual 30-entry constant). Rebased onto current master; po/ catalogs regenerated as the final step so the diff is just the new/changed strings in sync with the tree. Verified for real: built and ran both amule and amulegui, plus the full unit test suite (27/27 passing, including the new SearchHistoryTest's 7 cases).
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Mechanical rebase to resolve the po/ catalog conflicts against master's amule-org#648/amule-org#650/amule-org#651 (per got3nks's note on amule-org#643) -- no source changes here, scripts/update-po.sh output only, so the diff is just the tree back in sync with the current strings.
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Rebased onto current master and re-ran scripts/update-po.sh in 0ec00b3 — that resolves the po/ catalog conflicts against #648/#650/#651 deterministically, no source changes in that commit. Also fixed a CI-only link failure in the same push (5edeb4b): SearchHistoryTest needed Format.cpp + strerror_r.c linked in for muleunit's glibc backtrace path, same as MagnetURITest/CMuleCollectionTest already do — passed locally on macOS but failed on Ubuntu/mingw. Thanks for flagging the macOS autocomplete behavior — good to know it's a wx port limitation rather than something to chase down here, and reassuring that the dropdown itself is solid on every platform either way. |
Mechanical rebase to resolve the po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#643/amule-org#646/amule-org#648/amule-org#650/amule-org#651 -- no source changes here. Confirms got3nks's prediction on the Alt+<letter>-outside-_() fix: the only genuinely new msgid in the diff is "Navigate" (the new macOS menu itself); every other hunk is line-number-comment churn from the rebase, not orphaned or duplicated translations.
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@LSalami this'll need a fresh po regen (not on you), the catalogs drift every time another merge touches them. |
The search field was a plain text control with no memory of past
searches. Swap it for a wxComboBox (a wxTextEntry, like wxTextCtrl,
so the existing GetValue()/Clear() call sites keep working via that
shared base) and persist submitted terms to wxConfig, most-recent
first, capped at 20 entries and deduplicated case-insensitively.
Right-clicking the field opens a small menu ("Remember search
history" checkbox + "Clear search history") so history can be paused
or wiped without a dedicated Preferences page.
i18n: ran scripts/update-po.sh to register the two new menu strings.
A separator between the checkbox and "Clear search history" keeps the one-shot destructive action visually distinct from the persistent on/off state, instead of reading as a second toggle in the same group.
Fixes the modernize-use-nullptr clang-tidy finding on the changed line; matches the nullptr convention already used a couple of wxComboBox constructions below in the same file.
…refs toggle, edit menu Addresses all four blocking points from got3nks's review, plus both optional suggestions: 1. Edit context menu restored. Overriding the field's context menu no longer drops Cut/Copy/Paste/Select All -- same custom-Paste-ID idiom as CMuleTextCtrl::OnRightDown (wxMenu over-permits wxID_PASTE, so it gets a manual clipboard-content check), plus a separator, plus the history's own Clear action. 2. Persisted to a dedicated searchhistory.dat (via CTextFile, one term per line) instead of amule.conf -- mirrors eMule's AC_SearchStrings.dat. Query terms no longer bloat the main config or travel with config backups / the --amule-config-file push to amuleweb/amuleapi. 3. "Remember search history" moved into Preferences > General as an ordinary Cfg_Bool checkbox (IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED), same NewCfgItem wiring as every other GUI-behavior toggle on that page. It's a client-side-only setting, so the one checkbox works unchanged in both amule and amuleGUI. The context menu keeps only Clear (a one-shot action, not a setting to toggle from a hidden menu). 4. Cap raised from 20 to 30, matching eMule's CCustomAutoComplete default. Optional, done anyway: - wxComboBox::AutoComplete() wired up (eMule's ACO_AUTOSUGGEST equivalent), re-armed after every load/record/clear so it always reflects the current entry set. - Explicitly framed as *query* history throughout (comments, tooltip) to distinguish it from the separate, not-yet-implemented result persistence that's the rest of amule-org#641. The dedup/move-to-front/cap logic that used to live inline in CSearchDlg::RecordSearchHistory is extracted into a pure function, ApplySearchHistoryEntry() (SearchHistory.h/.cpp), decoupled from wxComboBox/wxConfig specifically so it's unit-testable without a wx event loop -- new SearchHistoryTest covers empty-list insert, reorder of an existing term, case-insensitive dedup, empty-term no-op, and capping (including locking in the actual 30-entry constant). Rebased onto current master; po/ catalogs regenerated as the final step so the diff is just the new/changed strings in sync with the tree. Verified for real: built and ran both amule and amulegui, plus the full unit test suite (27/27 passing, including the new SearchHistoryTest's 7 cases).
Same Linux/mingw-only link failure as CMuleCollectionTest/MagnetURITest already work around: muleunit's MuleDebug.cpp needs CFormat for its glibc backtrace path, which isn't compiled in on macOS -- so the target linked fine locally but failed on the Ubuntu/mingw CI builds (and the clang-tidy jobs, which build the tree first).
Mechanical rebase to resolve the po/ catalog conflicts against master's amule-org#648/amule-org#650/amule-org#651 (per got3nks's note on amule-org#643) -- no source changes here, scripts/update-po.sh output only, so the diff is just the tree back in sync with the current strings.
txtIgnoreEmptyLines|txtStripWhitespace has no single named enumerator to cast to -- clang-tidy Tier-1 flagged it (clang-analyzer-optin.core. EnumCastOutOfRange), correctly: EReadTextFile isn't a flag enum, so a synthesized OR'd value is genuinely out of its declared range even though CTextFile::ReadLines treats it as bitflags at runtime. txtReadDefault would dodge the cast but also drops '#'-led lines, silently eating a legitimate search term that happens to start with one. Read unfiltered (txtReadAll, a real enumerator) and do the trim/empty-line-drop by hand instead -- same behavior, no cast, no lost terms.
Mechanical rebase to resolve the po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#642 (just merged) -- no source changes here.
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Mechanical rebase to resolve po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Also resolved a real conflict in muuli_wdr.h: amule-org#643's IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED (10488) landed on master, which this branch had already anticipated and reserved 10489 for.
Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: amule-org#642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept amule-org#642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended.
Mechanical rebase to resolve po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Also resolved a real conflict in muuli_wdr.h: amule-org#643's IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED (10488) landed on master, which this branch had already anticipated and reserved 10489 for.
Mechanical rebase to resolve po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Also resolved a real conflict in muuli_wdr.h: amule-org#643's IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED (10488) landed on master, which this branch had already anticipated and reserved 10489 for.
Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: amule-org#642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept amule-org#642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's amule-org#671 (Preferences sidebar) and amule-org#665/amule-org#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet.
Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: amule-org#642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept amule-org#642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's amule-org#671 (Preferences sidebar) and amule-org#665/amule-org#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet.
* feat(gui): remove the global Connect/Disconnect toolbar button Closes #402. Per-network controls already exist (Kad pane's Start/Stop, Servers pane's ED2K connect/disconnect), the connection state is already shown in the status bar, and after discussing relocating it into the Networks view the agreed call (got3nks + ngosang) was simply to remove it -- mirrors what #585 already did on the Web UI side. Removed the toolbar tool, its three skin icons (Toolbar_Connect/ Disconnect/Connecting) and their bitmap wiring, the button-update block in ShowConnectionState(), and the two EnableTool(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) call sites. CamuleDlg::OnBnConnect() itself stays -- CMuleTrayIcon::DoConnectDisconnect() still calls it for the tray icon's own connect/disconnect action, which is unaffected by this change. ShowConnectionState()'s skinChanged parameter was only ever read by the now-removed block, so it's gone too, along with the one call site that passed true and the forceUpdate plumbing that reached it through GuiEvents.cpp's ShowConnState() free function. Left ID_BUTTONCONNECT and muuli_wdr.cpp's muleToolbar() (which still calls it) alone -- that function predates Apply_Toolbar_Skin, is never called anywhere, and touching pre-existing dead code is out of scope for this fix. Verified: built and ran both amule and amulegui cleanly, full unit test suite passing (26/26). Confirmed via the po/ diff that "Connect"/ "Disconnect"/"Cancel" remain in the catalog (still used by other per-network buttons) -- only their now-orphaned toolbar-specific tooltip strings were dropped. Could not get a real on-screen visual confirmation of the toolbar layout -- same macOS Accessibility automation limitations as #180 got in the way of screenshotting the actual app window. * i18n: regenerate po/ catalogs after rebasing onto current master Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's #642/#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: #642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept #642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's #671 (Preferences sidebar) and #665/#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet. * feat(gui): turn the per-network Disconnect buttons into Connect/Cancel/Disconnect toggles Relocates the removed global toolbar button's functionality into the ED2K (IDC_ED2KDISCONNECT) and Kad (ID_KADDISCONNECT) panes instead of just dropping it, per got3nks's proposal on #663: each button now mirrors ed2kState/kadState (off/connecting/connected) using the existing connButImg() bitmaps, and can independently connect or cancel/disconnect its own network -- something the old OR-toggled global button never allowed. The ED2K pane also gains a Connect button it never had (previously Disconnect-only). CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() / CKadDlg::UpdateConnectButton() are called from CamuleDlg::ShowConnectionState() alongside the existing UpdateED2KInfo()/UpdateKadInfo() calls, and once from each pane's own ctor/Init() for the initial paint. OnBnClickedED2KDisconnect and OnBnClickedDisconnectKad gained the missing "connect when off" branch; OnBnConnect and the tray icon are untouched. Verified interactively on Windows: both buttons show the correct label/icon for their live state, ED2K disconnect/reconnect works from its own button, and disabling ED2K in Preferences while Kad stays connected confirms the two toggle independently. po/ regenerated via scripts/update-po.sh to match the new button labels ("Disconnect Kad" is now unused and moves to the obsolete section; no new translatable strings). * fix(gui): drop the per-network connect-button state cache got3nks flagged two bugs in review (PR #663): the static cache's early return also skipped Enable(), so the button could get stuck disabled once IsReady()/network-pref state changed without the Connect/Cancel/Disconnect state itself changing (master had two now- deleted escape hatches -- the skinChanged force-path and an unconditional EnableTool call -- that used to paper over this). Worse, the cache was function-scope static, surviving widget recreation, so a fresh pane's Init() call could early-return and leave the wxDesigner default label ("Disconnect Kad") on screen. Dropping the cache removes both: SetLabel/SetBitmap/Enable are cheap on a plain wxButton (unlike the old toolbar tool, which had real native-image-list reasons to memoize, see amuleDlg.cpp:1054-ish), and master's own second call site already did an unconditional EnableTool every tick without issue. Second review round (macOS + Ubuntu ARM64, monolithic + amuleGUI) confirmed the toggle works functionally but flagged three cosmetic issues, all fixed here: - No gap between the connect-button icon and its label. The obvious fix, wxButton::SetBitmapMargins(), is NOT portable (wxOSX overrides it, wxGTK inherits the base no-op) -- prefixing the label with a literal space outside the _() call behaves identically on both and introduces no new msgid. - The Kad button was stretched full-width by its sizer's .Expand() flag, while the ED2K one sizes naturally; GTK and macOS then filled the slack differently (centered vs. icon-left). Dropped .Expand() so the two buttons size the same way -- trades away lining up with the "Bootstrap from known clients" button above it, but the two connect buttons reading as the same control matters more. - CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() and CKadDlg::UpdateConnectButton() were near-identical (same 3-state enum, same switch, same three bitmaps). Factored into a shared SetConnectButtonState(button, state, enabled) helper in muuli_wdr.cpp/.h, next to connButImg() which it reuses -- so the icon-spacing fix above lives in one place instead of two. Verified interactively on Windows: re-tested full disconnect/reconnect cycle on both panes, toggling ED2K off and back on via Preferences (existing behavior: needs an app restart to re-enable) with correct state on the fresh post-restart paint, and confirmed by screenshot that both buttons now show a visible icon/label gap and size the same way (Kad no longer stretched). Also confirmed amulegui (CLIENT_GUI) builds clean with these changes; did not perform full interactive remote-daemon testing. * fix(gui): first-paint layout bug + connect-button placement, per review Two more issues from got3nks's Linux/GTK pass on #663. 1. Bug: the ED2K connect button painted with the icon overlapping the label on first show (Kad was fine, only by luck of timing). CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() runs after sizer->Show(this, TRUE) in the ctor, so SetBitmap() grows the button's best size after the row was already measured against the text-only label, and nothing re-lays it out until a window resize. Fixed by calling Layout() on the button's parent at the end of the shared SetConnectButtonState() helper -- covers both panes, and stops Kad from relying on being laid out late (its notebook page is only measured once shown, after Init() already set its bitmap). 2. Layout: moved both connect/disconnect toggles to lead their pane instead of sitting among secondary controls, per got3nks's request: - ED2K (serverListDlgUp): toggle now on its own top row, right- aligned via a stretch spacer, directly above the server list. The "Add server manually" form (name/IP/port/Add) moved below the table instead of sharing a row with the toggle; the vertical separator that used to sit between them is gone (no longer needed once they're not adjacent). - Kad (KadDlg): toggle moved out of the "Bootstrap" static box (where it sat under "Bootstrap from known clients") to its own top row above the box, right-aligned the same way as ED2K's. item0 changed from a 1x1 FlexGridSizer (which only ever held the two-column area) to a plain vertical wxBoxSizer so it can hold the new top row plus the existing two-column layout. Both panes now read "primary control on top, secondary/manual controls below" -- matching shape on both tabs. Verified interactively on Windows: screenshotted both panes, confirmed no icon/label overlap on first paint (no window resize needed), and re-ran the disconnect/reconnect toggle cycle on both after the layout change.
…ry UI (#709) Four things, all around the IDC_SEARCHNAME field. "Reset Fields" wiped the whole search history instead of just the Name field. The call was already casting to wxTextEntry to avoid exactly that, with a comment saying so, but the cast does not help: wxTextEntry::Clear() is virtual and wxComboBoxBase overrides it as { wxItemContainer::Clear(); wxTextEntry::Clear(); }, so the call dispatched to the override and emptied the dropdown's item list too. Use SetValue("") instead, which only touches the text. This also explains the second half of the report -- the last term still being offered as a completion after the list looked empty -- since the item list was cleared while the autocomplete set was left armed. Fixes a null dereference in SearchListCtrl's "search related files" action. The field became a wxComboBox in #643, and wxComboBox does not derive from wxTextCtrl -- it is wxWindowWithItems<wxControl, wxComboBoxBase> -- so the CastByID dynamic_cast to wxTextCtrl there had been yielding nullptr, which the following SetValue() dereferenced. Cast to wxTextEntry, the common base of both control types. Adds a visible "Clear search history" button after the search-type choice. The action already existed in the field's right-click menu, but that menu is unreachable on Windows: wxComboBox's editable part is a native child EDIT window, and wx forwards only key, focus and clipboard messages from it (ShouldForwardFromEditToCombo in src/msw/combobox.cpp) -- WM_CONTEXTMENU is not among them, so the native menu appears instead and our handler never runs. Built in SearchDlg.cpp rather than muuli_wdr so the existing msgid keeps its catalog position; adding the same string to muuli_wdr.cpp would move the pot entry, since xgettext orders entries by file scan order. Gates the whole history UI on "Remember search history", which previously only stopped new terms being recorded: existing terms stayed visible in the dropdown and kept being offered as completions, and the field kept its dropdown either way. Now the Name field is a plain wxTextCtrl when the preference is off, the Clear button is hidden, and no stored terms are loaded. searchhistory.dat is deliberately left on disk, so re-enabling restores the previous history rather than starting over. Applied live from PrefsUnifiedDlg::OnOk, so no restart is needed.
The Search tab's Name-field history held 30 entries, eMule's CCustomAutoComplete default, adopted in the #643 review rather than chosen for aMule. A history is only useful as far back as it reaches, and 30 queries is a short reach for anyone who searches often; clearing it has been a deliberate, confirmed action since #754, so there is less cost to keeping more of it around. Raised to 100 on request (#755). Eviction is LRU and stays that way: ApplySearchHistoryEntry moves a searched term to the front and drops any earlier case-insensitive copy, so what falls off the tail is the least recently searched rather than the least recently added. Terms that get reused stay near the front whatever the cap is, which is what makes the extra slots worth having -- they go to the long tail instead of hoarding stale one-offs. The constant moves from an anonymous namespace in SearchDlg.cpp to SearchHistory.h, beside the function that consumes it. That closes a gap in the tests: the one that claimed to lock "the constant CSearchDlg actually passes in" was hardcoding its own copy of the number, so it would have gone on passing while the GUI used something else entirely. It now reads the same symbol the GUI does. A longer history could have worsened the other half of #755 -- the dropdown overlapping other UI -- so the list was checked with a full 100 entries on Windows 11, Ubuntu and macOS first. None of the three runs it off the screen. Bounding the visible entries is a separate matter and not addressed here: wxWidgets exposes no dropdown-height control on plain wxComboBox (SetPopupMaxHeight is wxComboCtrl/wxOwnerDrawnComboBox only), so it needs a different widget rather than a setting.
Summary
aMule's search field had no memory of past searches (#641).
Implementation
wxComboBoxin the searchpanel. It's a
wxTextEntryjust likewxTextCtrl, so the existingGetValue()/Clear()call sites keep working unchanged via thatshared base — no widget-specific special-casing needed elsewhere.
wxConfig(
/eMule/SearchHistory/*), most-recent-first, deduplicatedcase-insensitively, capped at 20 entries.
wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENUfires from both) opens a small menu:pause recording without losing what's already saved.
destructive action, kept visually apart from the toggle above so
it doesn't read as another state in the same group.
Test plan
amule.confunder[eMule/SearchHistory], most-recent-firstAXComboBoxfound via macOS accessibility inspection) rather than an opaque custom widgetscripts/update-po.shrun to register the two new menu strings