gui: the list of formats grouped by kind, with a filter by donislawdev · Pull Request #127 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-09-23T14:13:18Z

What changes for somebody using the window

With twenty six formats the open list showed eighteen of them, in one alphabetical run that mixed pictures, documents and text. The list of formats now:

stands under a heading for each kind of file - Archives, Documents, Pictures, Sound, Text and data - and each heading says how many formats are under it
has a box at its top that narrows it to the formats whose name holds what is typed (gz finds targz) or whose kind starts with it (pict keeps every picture), with the letters that matched drawn in bold
puts the keyboard on the first format starting with what was typed, steps over the headings with the arrows, and says "Nothing matches" when the filter keeps nothing
opens with the letter in the box when somebody types at the shut Format menu, so jxl typed there ends on jxl rather than on log

The shut menu draws the kind of the format it holds, and archives are drawn as a folder rather than as three bars that looked like the text formats.

Every list of every format gets this at once - the single batch screen, each batch, the files inside an archive and the preset that is built in one format - because it is switched on where a menu is built. Menus with a few values keep the letter jump they had.

What does not change

The registry, tfg formats, its JSON and the wording of a refusal keep one alphabetical order. The kind of a file stays a fact about drawing and does not reach the engine. The value in the menu is still the format id, so no recipe, manifest or byte changes.

How it is held

Seven guards in internal/guard/formatlist_test.go, each with a mutation entry: the headings and their counts, narrowing and where the keyboard lands, the arrows over the headings, a letter at the shut menu, the bold part, and the picture in the shut menu.
The guards that read a row's words, the list's height and the letter jump were taught the headings and the filter box. The letter jump is now asked of a menu without a filter.
Catalogue states for the grouped list, typed into and emptied, and for the shut menu of every format. Stored screens redrawn.

Checked in the running window: grouping, counts, pict, gz, p, the arrows, Enter, Escape, and jxl typed at the shut menu. The full suite was not run locally - CI runs it.

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New Features
- The format menu is now grouped by kind, with item counts and icons, including folder icons for archive formats.
- Search formats by name or by the beginning of a category name. Matching text is highlighted, and an empty-results message appears when nothing matches.
- Type while the menu is closed to open it with a filter. Keyboard navigation skips category headings and focuses matching formats.
- The selected format’s kind is shown in the menu. Command-line format listings remain alphabetically ordered.

…s not yet rewritten) The open list of formats gets a box at the top that narrows it and a heading over each kind of file. The closed box draws the kind picture, and archives draw a folder rather than three bars that read as text. Four menu guards are red by design until they are rewritten for the new promise - see the branch's later commits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…a kind by its name, and says how many stand under each heading Four things the owner asked for on the running window: a letter typed at the shut format menu opens the list with that letter in its filter, a filter matches a word of a heading from its start, the letters that matched are drawn in bold, and each heading counts the formats under it. The guards that read a row's words or the list's height learn the headings and the filter box, and seven new guards hold the list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

The catalogue shows the menu of every format with the picture of its value, and the list grouped, typed into with the matched letters in bold, and emptied by a filter that keeps nothing. Setting a filter before the list is first drawn no longer reaches for a scroller the toolkit has not made yet. Stored screens redrawn for the picture in the shut menu and the grouped list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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The format chooser now groups formats by kind, supports filtering and value-only keyboard navigation, and displays kind icons beside selected values. The catalogue, screen examples, tests, and changelog reflect these changes.

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Format chooser

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Format grouping, filtering, and row rendering `internal/gui/parts/filekind.go`, `internal/gui/parts/narrow.go`, `internal/gui/parts/listrow.go`, `internal/gui/text/screens.go`, `internal/gui/text/locale/en.json`	Kind headings use localized labels and counts. Filtering matches format-name substrings and heading-word prefixes. Headings are not selectable, and matched text is rendered in bold.
Open-list and chooser interaction `internal/gui/parts/filterbox.go`, `internal/gui/parts/openlist.go`, `internal/gui/parts/ring.go`, `internal/gui/parts/menulook.go`, `internal/gui/parts/tokens.go`	Open lists display headings, values, and no-match notices with an optional filter box. Keyboard navigation skips non-value rows. Typing in a closed filtered chooser opens the list and sends the typed rune to its filter. Selected values display kind icons.
Tests, catalogue, and screen examples `internal/guard/_test.go`, `internal/guard/testdata/screens/`, `internal/gui/catalogue/controls.go`, `internal/gui/catalogue/lists.go`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Tests cover filtering, grouping, navigation, rendering, and list sizing. Catalogue and screen examples show grouped lists and kind icons. The changelog records the UI changes and states that command-line format listing remains alphabetically ordered.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Chooser
  participant OpenList
  participant FilterBox
  User->>Chooser: Types a rune while the menu is closed
  Chooser->>OpenList: Opens the grouped, filtered list
  Chooser->>FilterBox: Forwards the typed rune
  FilterBox->>OpenList: Updates the filter
  User->>FilterBox: Enters the remaining format text
  User->>OpenList: Selects the active value
  OpenList-->>Chooser: Applies the selected value

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9cc49

The grouped, filterable format list works as described. When the list is opened with Space, a stray space can appear in the filter box and hide its placeholder. A few test, wording and documentation fixes are also worth making. None of these blocks use of the format menus.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds a hardcoded font style on an individual control in `internal/gui/parts/listrow.go:104`: `strong.TextStyle = fyne.TextStyle{Bold: true}`. The same file already defines the reusable `heading…	Define shared bold and plain text styles, or reuse `headingStyle`, and assign those styles to `strong` and `label` instead of constructing `fyne.TextStyle{...}` at the control sites. Keep the existing theme and token lookups for colors, siz…
No Resource Leaks	⚠️ Warning	The new `FilterBox` creates a Fyne `Entry` and focuses it when the format popup opens (`internal/gui/parts/ring.go:510-528`). Fyne starts `Entry.cursorAnim.anim` on focus. The normal Enter/Escape path…	Route every popup dismissal, including outside-click dismissal, through one idempotent cleanup function. That function must hide the popup, clear `Chooser.opened`, and restore focus to the chooser so `FilterBox.FocusLost` stops `Entry.curso…

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: grouped format lists with filtering. It is specific, release-note suitable, and within the approximate 140-character limit.
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Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	The changed production code is confined to `internal/gui/catalogue`, `internal/gui/parts`, and `internal/gui/text`, so it changes GUI behavior rather than non-UI runtime behavior. The PR adds six focu…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	No custom-check violation is present in the reviewed diff. The changed-file inventory contains no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added source, locale, XML, and changel…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem is introduced. The changed chooser still uses Fyne `widget.NewList`; Fyne documents this widget as pooled and cached, so the grouped list remains virtualized rather than c…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	PASS — The PR changes only GUI list, filtering, icon, localization, catalogue, and guard code. The changed production imports and added code contain no working-directory asset loads, file/settings wri…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The changed Go code only uses in-memory format IDs and UI strings. The new `en.json` entries are static text with `{{.Kind}}` and `{{.Count}}` placeholders, and …
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The PR changes only in-application GUI format menus, filtering, rendering, localization, tests, and catalogue assets. The changed Go code uses Fyne and internal packages and does not modify network ru…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR adds clear user-facing filter text: “type to filter”, category headings with counts, and “Nothing matches”. The filter is a visible bordered text field, and the new format icons accompany visib…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR stays within the described GUI format-list feature. Production changes are confined to `internal/gui`; the guard tests and stored screens cover the same behavior. The title and description ment…

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Explanation

The PR adds a hardcoded font style on an individual control in internal/gui/parts/listrow.go:104: strong.TextStyle = fyne.TextStyle{Bold: true}. The same file already defines the reusable headingStyle, while colors, text sizes, paddings, gaps, and radii otherwise use theme values or shared tokens.

Resolution

Define shared bold and plain text styles, or reuse headingStyle, and assign those styles to strong and label instead of constructing fyne.TextStyle{...} at the control sites. Keep the existing theme and token lookups for colors, sizes, and spacing.

Full details: No Resource Leaks

Explanation

The new FilterBox creates a Fyne Entry and focuses it when the format popup opens (internal/gui/parts/ring.go:510-528). Fyne starts Entry.cursorAnim.anim on focus. The normal Enter/Escape paths call giveBack, which restores focus and stops the animation, but an outside click dismisses the popup through Fyne's PopUp.Hide callback. That path only removes the overlay and does not call giveBack or move focus. The hidden filter can therefore keep its cursor animation running, and Chooser.opened also keeps the OpenList and FilterBox reachable after dismissal. This is introduced by the new filter entry and its animation-bearing renderer.

Resolution

Route every popup dismissal, including outside-click dismissal, through one idempotent cleanup function. That function must hide the popup, clear Chooser.opened, and restore focus to the chooser so FilterBox.FocusLost stops Entry.cursorAnim.anim. Use a dismiss-aware popup/overlay instead of relying on widget.NewPopUp's default PopUp.Hide callback. Also clear the filter/list callback references during cleanup if the popup retains them, then verify repeated open, outside-dismiss, and close cycles do not leave active animations or retained popup objects.

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Inline comments:
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 19-29: Update the filtering description in the changelog entry to
say that a format matches when any word in its kind starts with the typed text,
preserving the existing examples and other entry details.

In `@internal/guard/formatlist_test.go`:
- Around line 134-138: Update the heading-shape assertion over list.DrawnRows()
to count rows for which Heading() is true, while retaining the existing Kind()
and Marked() checks for each heading. Fail the test if the count is zero so the
assertion cannot pass when no heading was drawn.

In `@internal/gui/parts/filekind.go`:
- Around line 18-26: Remove references to the uncommitted
FORMAT-MENU-2026-09-23.md from the three comments, including the comment near
KindHeading, so they no longer point to a nonexistent document.

In `@internal/gui/parts/filterbox.go`:
- Around line 37-49: Add a TypedRune handler to FilterBox that ignores
whitespace when the filter is empty, preventing the space that opens the list
from appearing as invisible input. Forward all other runes to the embedded
entry’s rune handler; leave TypedKey behavior unchanged.

In `@internal/gui/text/locale/en.json`:
- Around line 336-339: Update the ListNothingMatches message in the locale
catalogue and the default string returned by ListNothingMatches() in screens.go
to explain that no format matches and that clearing the box shows all formats,
using a flat hyphen and no semicolon. Regenerate the affected width-dependent
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