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  • Published 4 Oct 2024

Vertex Groups Panel Search is missing Highlights signaling (and an extra proposition for all Searchbars)

Hello! I'm using now Blender 4.2.2 LTS.

If you compare the Search systems in Blender, and if you remember of recent improvements from previous versions, you'll realize that some Searchbars in the UI have been revamped (such as the Outliner's one: i.e., the Outliner's text data that which is matching the active Search's input, is Highlighten!), while there might be several other Searchbars which have not been revamped in that positive fashion...:

This is the case, at least, of the Vertex Groups Panel's Search system. Please, refer to the Blender's UI screenshot to realize the critical difference!

VertexGroupsPanelSearchHightlight.png

Why this matters? Not only because of UI coherence. But, myself, I've been stucked in confusion for hours, because I had left text data input hanging in the Vertex Groups Panel's Searchbar once, and I just couldn't visualize it in the UI (no Highlitghting of any Search-matching Vertex Groups!). Then I thought my Blender version, my file, or my Mesh Objects were corrupted, because I was missing from the list (I couldn't see) A LOT of the unmatching and necessary Vertex Groups I was trying to Transfer (between Mesh Objects); but, because they were being suppressed in the list by the active Search, and because the matching elements in the list were not Highligthen, I couldn't understand what was going on; and I couldn't perceive the Searchbar was active (I TOTALLY for got about its existence by that time). That wouldn't have happened, I assume, if the Vertex Groups Panel's Search system had been revamped (similar to the Outliner's).

Extra: I would go further, and suggest, for all the Search systems inside Blender, some special Hightligthing FOR the Searchbar itself? For example, allow me to use any app's random example of Search singing: in this case, a Mozilla Firefox's example: You see that the Searchbar itself becomes alarmingly reddish, as an alert sign to the user, that Search is being active, but nothing was found! Inversely, if something is matching the acitve Search, text is Highligthen.

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Thanks for your attention!

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pxy-gnomes
4 Oct 2024

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