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  • Published 14 Aug 2021

Search bar in Blender Preferences window

I am just gonna simply put it here. Everyone knows what a search bar is, and how it can be so helpful in finding something quickly. It's like the perfect tool to find a needle in a haystack.

We saw this implemented in the Properties Panel . So, i would also love to see this in the Preferences panel as well. This will save a lot of time for many people.

Here are two examples of how the Search Bar can be implemented in UI :

pref search v02.png

pref search v01.png

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eon
14 Aug 2021

2 Comments

ManBlender

I think that search input need resize and maybe combo to check where to limit search to some categories.

Assuming you mean ' search ' as in Preferences item ' display filter ', I think I would probably want to adapt relevant-looking code more like that in space_properties.py rather than in space_outliner.py .

docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.SpacePropertiesr.html docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.SpaceOutliner.html