[REQ] - Add Text Search/Filtering Based on Game Titles

[Duggy84]

Request to add a button when browsing games within a plugin (source menu item) that, when clicked, will open a search/filtering dialog box. The user enters text using an onscreen keyboard, which then limits the games shown based on the text entered into the dialog box being contained within the title of the game. Titles from the plugin_data database could be used, if available, else the name of the game files.

Similar functionality to the search/filtering feature in USB Loader GX would be great. Please refer to the attached screenshot.

This would be helpful for large game collections.

[eku]

@Duggy84 Pull Request is welcome.

[Duggy84]

@eku It's been 20 years since I've done low level assembly/c/c++. Wish I still had those skills. :) Happy to contribute in any way I can, e.g. functional testing, regression testing, buy developers several coffees.

Was reviewing the favorites and categories functionality yesterday and noticed how they filter the visible games. Assuming the same technique can be used here, maybe re-using some code from USB Loader GX for the virtual keyboard and search dialog behavior, then filtering the visible games?