Official Quick Search Preview

Yes you are right. We will put something in place for this.

 

Yes I have noticed that issue. I wonder if it has something to do with pressing ALT? Is your shortcut bound using ALT? We also added contextual search, so in example you could bind it to CTRL+F and if the focused is on the Project Browser, it will open Quick Search and only enable the asset search provider. Maybe binding CTRL+F will prevent the textfield from eating all inputs. I'll make a few test today around this and see if it could be improved.

 

Yes the second one can still be printed. I asked the scripting team and what happens is that by the time the exception gets thrown, a domain reload also occurs and cancel the current domain code execution therefore ignoring the try/catch statement to not print the error. That said, other than being annoying the exception should not cause anything else. I still have to find a better solution.

Do you get it that often? How big is your project? On my side I didn't get it that often, unless I was spamming the Play/Stop button while the quick search window was docked.

 

Ahh shoot We really need to find a better shortcut that doesn't require ALT (maybe at least for version 2018.3/4). Let me think about something and I'll get back to you.

 

Ok we'll remove the warning.

 

I can ask around, but since 2018.4 is now LTS I wouldn't expect that to happen. The shortcut manager required a pretty big refactoring of some low level systems, so I doubt we would take the risk to backport it to 2018.4 at this stage.

 

Version 1.2.1-preview published with some minor fixes.

 

Hi Sam, great to hear from you! It's a new tool still looking for feedback. Do not hesitate to let us know what works and what doesn't. The SearchProvider API is available too if you have some good idea to create a new provider for one of your tool.

Have a great day!

 

You can specify the filter yourself. If you are using the new indexed search you can simplify add the keyword "prefab" or through the asset database API by adding "trefab". With the new indexed search you should be able to type just a few characters to filter out additional stuff. The issue with the previous filter list was that it was incomplete and causing searches to be incomplete in many cases. When you do your searches try this: "<something> <type extension>" you'll get what you are looking for quickly. Make sure to enable the indexed search in the Quick Search settings.

 

It will in 2019.3.0a6 when released in the hub or you can always find it as a preview package in the Package Manager.

 

Usually you do not need to type the entire extension, but you are right if that all your scriptable object type ends with .asset it would be hard to filter them, but the previous list wasn't showing all scriptable object types anyway.

That said, I hear your feedback and we'll see how we can improve that in the next version. Meanwhile, enable the asset indexed search and try different pattern, like MSF, to match things like MySuperFile, etc. I am sure you'll quickly get how to form your search query to get quickly to the file you are looking for.

Thanks,

 

Would you like me to provide you a custom SearchProvider example (c# script) that only search for prefab or some other type that you could tweak for your specific need?

You could simply drop that script in your project or in another package that depends on com.unity.quicksearch and tweak it. You'll see, it is pretty simple to make a search provider for specific needs.

Let me know.

 

As soon as v1.2.2 is released you'll be able to write your own asset type indexer like so: https://gist.github.com/jschmidt42/0aa91bbb39f52fb5ba74ce75911769c6

 

New version 1.2.2

- Add more performance, productivity and fun!
- Add fuzzy search to scene objects search provider.

- [API] Add Search.customDescriptionFormatter to allow a search provider to indicate that the item description was already done and should not be done generically (used by the scene object search provider fuzzy search).
- [API] Add SearchProvider.isExplicitProvider to mark a provider as explicit. An explicit provider only list search result if the the search query start with its filter id. In example, # will get into the calculator search provider and # will only return static method APIs.
- [API] Expose the SearchIndexer API to easily add new search provider with indexed data.
- [UX] Add ... to long search item description and show the entire description as a tooltip.

- [UX] Add more tooltips to some controls to indicate more advance features.
- [UX] Allow the user to change the default action to be executed for search item with multiple actions.

- [UX] Make the asset indexed search the default search for the asset search provider.
- [UX] Make the Quick Search window default size larger.
- [UX] Separate regular search providers from explicit search providers in the filter popup window.

 

New version 1.2.3

- Add a new help search provider to guide the user how to use other search providers (type ? to get a list of search help items).

- [UX] Draw some nice up and down arrows to order the search provider priority.

- [UX] Add a status bar to give some context to the user what is going on and what is filtered or not.

- [UX] Add a Reset Priorities button in the Settings window to restore all default search provider priorities if messed up for whatever reason.

- [FIX] Fix the ordering of search provider priorities in the Settings window.
- [FIX] Fix the order of explicit providers in the filter popup window.
- [FIX] Fix a rare exception when the SearchIndexer is trying to write to the temporary index DB.
- [API] Add `SearchAction.closeWindowAfterExecution` to indicate if the window should be closed after executing an action. Now an action can append to the search text and show additional search items.
- [API] Add `ISearchView` interface for `SearchContext.searchView` to give access to some functionalities of the Quick Search host window.

If anyone of you have tried the Quick Search API to add new search provider or search actions, please let us know what worked, what is missing and what could be improved.

Also we'll probably moved the source code to https://github.com/Unity-Technologies so everyone can contribute if they wish too.

Thanks,

 

Hi, are you using the latest version 1.2.3? Usually the recently used items should show first for the same provider. Do you use the global shortcut to open the quick search or do you use the shortcut to open Quick Search only for assets, i.e. Alt+Shift+O? As of now, contextual search do not persist settings, such as recently used items. Only the global search persist preferences through multiple session.

 

Ok then the item you've selected once should show first with that new version. Let me know if that is still not the case and we'll fix it.

 

All great ideas!

We'll make the fuzzy search public, we'll add a guid provider (super great idea), we'll add the sub-scene name in the scene object search item description and for #3 we'll have too see, but we'll try something.

Thanks,

 

There you go for the GUID search (simple copy/paste a GUID in the search box).
We added a sub-filter (e.g. guid) so you can disable it if someone thinks it slow down the search.

 

SugoiDev what do you think of this formatting?
Label: <transform path> (instance ID)
Description: <sub scene name/prefab path>/<transform path> (fuzzy score)



I also added a new action to open the corresponding container asset. It will select/focus the asset in the project browser.

 

I added prefab game object instance preview as well:

 

Ok interesting, I'll take a look into that.

 

You can take a look at https://gist.github.com/jschmidt42/0aa91bbb39f52fb5ba74ce75911769c6

The idea is too fetch from the asset database all interested assets and then query the info you want and store them in an index for fast search. Unfortunately querying the asset database needs to be done in the main thread. If you are up to it, you can hack the system and go poke directly in the associated meta file using the file system API and index what you need.

 

Hi Aaron, I was able to repro your issue and a fix will be available in version 1.2.4 today or tomorrow.

Thanks,

 

Hi,

Version 1.2.4-preview is now available. Special thanks to @SugoiDev for some great suggestions.

- [UX] Add support to search asset by its GUID.
- [UX] Add scene objects root container asset information.
- [UX] Add prefab instance preview for scene objects
- [FIX] Improve search provider filtering
- [FIX] Fix recently used item persistence
- [FIX] Add an active loop while installing and removing packages to prevent any race conditions.

 

Wow ok! Integrating that in the next release for sure!

Thanks,

 

I am also thinking of adding a public API directly in Unity Editor for GetEditorMainWindowPos instead of using reflection like we are doing now. it would be much faster in call cases.

 

Ok that's the ThreadAbortException message erorr that can be caused when a domain reload occurs. You can usually ignore that message, I am still figuring out a way to discard the message.

 

Not out of scope at all. I'll give that a try and get back to you.

 

Here's what I have so far. You can filter by sub scene name, transform path and components (any component, but only the first one is displayed in the item label).



It is also great to search scene objects that match a given script component: