i discovered that the problem is that i'm using "custom drawing" routines for all the sort columns: (kDataBrowserListViewTypeSelectColumn). this has the unfortunate side effect that it is not possible to use the built-in routines for "type to select" when you use custom drawing. i'd have to switch to using "plain text" drawing routines in order for this function to work, and many columns wouldn't work that way
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
. plus it would not work at all on windows anyway, or i'd have to figure out how to re-implement it from scratch.
this will be much more possible when i have "fast search" done in version 2. (note: yes i'm working on it, no it won't be soon)