Searching for Entities

[greebo]

Upon request, the search function of the Entity Class Tree and the Entity Selector (the one you get when "Create Entity" is clicked) have been slightly improved. The type-in search field in the treeview is now looking in the whole entitydef name, not only at the beginning. The search is a tad slower now, but it is more useful.

 

To get out the most of this functionality, I thought I'd post some instructions here because this might be non-obvious.

 

Use-case: Let's suppose you search for the lantern (as requested in the issue report).

 

- Open the Create Entity dialog.

- Highlight the "darkmod" tree

- Hit Shift-RIGHT to expand the entire darkmod tree.

- Now type in the first few letters "lant" (it can be slow, beware)

- The first match will be highlighted.

- To browse through all possible matches, use the UP/DOWN arrow keys. Note that the little search box must still be active to give you the next/previous match, so don't wait until it disappears again.

 

That's it. Was this helpful?

[AluminumHaste]

Woot! Finally, it's useful lol. I gave up using the search feature because I hardly ever got what I was looking for, but this sounds like it will fix that problem.

[SneaksieDave]

Too awesome! That is going to be massively useful.

 

It sounds like there isn't a snapshot yet, but your description sounds like it fits the request exactly.