Official Quick Search Preview

It was officially designed for 2019.1, but you can manually add it your manifest of a 2018.3 project and it will work. There is a post above that shows how to do it.

 

Unfortunately shortcuts cannot be modified in 2018.3. The shortcut manager was completed in 2019.1. That said, you should be able to define a MenuItem function in your project and spawn the quick search window yourself. Let me know if you cannot get it to work.

Thanks,

 

Shortcyt management wasn't a available in 18.3. You can still modify the menu items in the package code though.

 

A new version with an update on performance for large projects (tested on actual large projects Chris) will be released shortly.

Keep up the positive attitude Chris!

 

You can open the QuickSearch from C#. And you can even overrides its search filter. We have already register specific shortcut to pop the QuickSearch in a specific search mode (ex: Alt + Shift + p will open the Quick search in project mode):

Code (CSharp):

1. [UsedImplicitly, Shortcut("Help/Quick Search/Assets")]
2. public static void PopQuickSearch()
3. {
4.     SearchService.Filter.ResetFilter(false);
5.     SearchService.Filter.SetFilter(true, type);
6.     SearchService.Filter.SetFilter(false, type, "a:" + areaFilter[1]);
7.     QuickSearchTool.ShowWindow(false);
8. }

 

Once you have an asset selected in the quick search window, try ALT+Enter or looks at the additional action available by clicking on the vertical dots on the far right of the item.

 

We have on the TODO list to add priority and sorting editing so you can sort which results should show first, etc.

 

As discussed above, fuzzy search is high on the TODO list.

If you want to search by type you can enter t:TYPE or *.png

 

For your second suggestion: this means you would like an action to ping and NOT to select the object? Currently pressing enter on an bject will select it and ping it.

Few information:

- The default action on an item can be activated with Enter (pretty obvious)
- PRessing Alt + Right pops the action menus for item supporting more than one actions
- PRessing Alt + Enter executes the second action on an item
- PRessing Ctrl + Enter executes the third action

You could easily register a new action to only ping an item. OR you could modify one of the currently registered actiuon to ping an item (Open maybe?). Then you could use Alt/Ctrl + Enter to access the ping action. There is no way to garanty the different order of actions for now (this will be added to the to do list).

 

Thanks for the feedback I didn't know about Unity Commander. Like Jonathan said earlier we have a new version coming soon that will speed up search dramatically. We have tested it with projects with millions of assets and it was really responsive.

 

Currently QuickSearch was aimed at 2019.1 (though it works with 2018.3). 2019.1 has a new shortcut manager that allows easy rebinding of shortcut.

That said, I will see what can be done for the default shortcut in 2018.3.

If all else fails this is something you can easily do on your side (the whole plugin is written in C#). Look for:

Look for:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. #if UNITY_2019_1_OR_NEWER
3. [UsedImplicitly,
4. Shortcut("Help/Quick Search", KeyCode.O, ShortcutModifiers.Alt | ShortcutModifiers.Shift),
5. MenuItem("Help/Quick Search &'", priority = 9000)]
6. #else
7. [MenuItem("Help/Quick Search &'", priority = 9000)]
8. #endif
9. private static void PopQuickSearch()
10. {
11.     ShowWindow();
12. }
13.  

In QuickSearch.cs

 

Hi Chris,

In the next version you'll be able to toggle that new option to get a window that you can place and resize as you want:

 

There is no way to narrow down which folders to search EXCEPT to exclude packages. See the Filter window for more filter.

When you say: "It would be especially useful if you could search from the currently selected folder." you mean from the current folder in the ProjectBrowser?

Being able to remove certain folder (like plugins/third party assets) would be great. We will have top think about the best way to specify this.

 

Great example of an ActionProvider. We are in the process of adding preferences to the tool. Being able to reorder actions in the action menu will be on our todo list (not committing to a date though). This would effectively allow you to modify the default actions when you click on an item (and which actions are bound to atl + enter and such).

We will look at better navigation (pageup + down and such).

 

Next update will have "debouncing" on character typing. It will wait for 100ms of inactivity before starting the search.

 

We are in the process of adding analytics for the next release (which contains the perf update for Folder search). but because of server trouble this latest update has been late. Sorry about that.

We will look at the t:Script and trefab. I am a bit surprise it fails as this search query is directly fed to the AssetDatabase itself.

 

The AssetProvider uses (mostly) the AssetDatabase to find results. And using a / in the name doesn't play well with the AssetDatabase search.

We will try to make improve this type of search by using File system indexation.

 

Noted. See previous answer: we will try to improve the AssetProvider results by adding more results from File system search instead of only using AssetDatabase.

 

Hi, we will add partial and fuzzy matching in an upcoming version. For now we rely mostly on the AssetDatabase API and if you use wildcards, i.e. *, we also run some local file system searches.

We are working on an much more powerful indexing system to allow this type of partial and fuzzy search.

Stay tuned.

 

Hi, here's a preview of the new reverse indexed search that we propose. For your specific case if you type "sol blu anim", the system should give you a result quite fast.



Summary of this new asset search provider:
- Add reversed indexing of all project assets,
- Add support for unordered search patterns (i.e. aster images, matches `Assets/Images/asteroids/...`
- Parse a ~250,000 assets project under 10 seconds,
- Search assets under *1-2 ms* compared to >= 100 ms using the asset database `FindAsset` API for a large project,
- The index is saved per project for quick reloading under Library/qs.index.

The preview shows what results and how much time it took for the asset database compared to when the new indexing system when enabled.

 

A new version (com.unity.quicksearch@1.0.9-preview.2) has been publish if some of you wants to give it a try.

 

It depends from which version you are coming from, but here's the full change log:

## [1.1.0-preview] - 2019-05-08

- Update UI for Northstar retheming

- Fix search item caching



## [1.0.9-preview.2] - 2019-05-06

- Add editor analytics

- Add fast indexing of the project assets file system.

- Add option to open the quick search in a dockable window.

- Add search service tests

- Add shortcut key bindings to the menu item descriptor.

- Add typing debouncing (to prevent searching for nothing while typing fast)

- Add yamato-CI

- Format the search item description to highlight the search terms.

- Improve documentation

- Improve the performance of searches when folder filter is selected.

- Record average fetch time of search provider and display those times in the Filter Window.

- Remove assets and scene search provider default shortcuts. They were conflicting with other core shortcuts.

- Remove duplicate items from search result.



## [1.0.1-preview.1] - 2019-02-27

- Fix ReflectionTypeLoadException exception for certain user with invalid project assemblies

- Optimize fetching results from menu, asset and scene search providers (~50x boost).



## [1.0.0-preview.2] - 2019-02-26

- Update style to work better with the Northstar branch.

- Use Alt+Left to open the filter window box.

- Use Alt+Down to cycle to next recent search.

- Navigate the filter window using the keyboard only.

- Consolidate web search providers into a single one with sub categories.

- Update documentation to include new features.

- Set the game object as the selected active game object when activated.



## [0.9.95-preview] - 2019-02-25

- Add AssetStoreProvider example

- Add HTTP asynchronous item loading by querying the asset store.

- Add onEnable/onDisable API for Search provider.

- Add Page Up and Down support to scroll the item list faster.

- Add search provider examples

- Add support for async results

- Cycle too previous search query using ALT+UpArrow

- Fix various Mac UX issues

- New icons

- Select first item by default en pressing



## [0.9.9-preview.2] - 2019-02-21

- Added drag and drop support. You can drag an item from the quick search tool to a drop target.

- Open the item contextual menu by pressing the keyboard right arrow of the selected item.

- Fixed folder entry search results when only the folder filter is selected.

- Fixed showing popup when alt-tabbing between windows.

- Add support for rich text label and description.

- Updated documentation



## [0.9.7-preview.3] - 2019-02-20

- Fixed cursor blinking

- Improved fetched scene object results



## [0.9.6-preview.1] - 2019-02-20

- Moved menu items under Help/

- Added a warning when all filters are disabled.

- Added search field cursor blinking.

- Added search field placeholder text when not search is made yet.

- Fixed a layout scoping issue when scrolling.



## [0.9.5-preview.1] - 2019-02-19

- First Version

- Search menu items

- Search project assets

- Search current scene game objects

- Search project and preference settings

- Build a search query for Unity Answers web site

- Build a search query for the Unity Documentation web site

- Build a search query for the Unity Store web site

 

Good catch, I removed TestMe

As for the t: Prefab issue it needs explanation on the search workflow. Example: you type "Player t: Prefab" in the search query. t: Prefab becomes a "filter" while "Player" is the text query.
- The whole search query is passed to all enabled Search provider
- The AssetSearchProvider knows how interprets t: Prefab and will return only prefabs assets
- Other SearchProviders (Menu, actions, scene) will ignore the t: Prefab filter since they do not know how to interpret it. But they still will return items matching the "text" of the query.

We could implicitly disable search providers when an unknown filter is passed to them... We will think about it over the weekend.

Thanks for the quick feedback Baste. Always appreciated.

 

Northstar is indeed the name for the new theme. Hope you like it.