D2X-XL now supports a smarter search method in file selection menus.

The current method was that if you hit a letter key on the keyboard, D2X jumped to the next file (mission or player file) starting with that letter.

If you had a lot of missions starting with the same letter, finding the right one this way could be somewhat tedious.

Things got further complicated with the introduction of mission sub folders, as these are always placed at the top of the file list.

So I have built in the name search method found in most modern applications, working with name completion.

Let's say you have three mission folders:

[Single]
[Spaz]
[Spotlight]

Hitting the 'S' key will create a search pattern 'S' and move the highlight to 'Single'. Hitting the 'P' key will expand the search pattern to 'SP', putting the highlight on 'Spaz'. Hitting 'O' will find 'Spotlight', using the search pattern 'SPO'.

The backspace key serves to backtrack the search pattern, so pressing it will truncate the search pattern to 'SP' and again place the highlight on 'Spaz'.

You can switch between the old methods pressing Strg+S in the file selection menus, or by checking/unchecking the 'Smart File Search in Menus' option in the toggles menu.