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posh ·
lo people. reading this topic Proposal - keep GUI and processing separate and fiddling with other peoples work, it hit me that what i would like (hopefully you, aswell 😉) in SM is a feature to search within shcematic for specific modules. kinda like the toolbox search, but not within the toolbox, but the actual schematic.
would come in handy ESPECIALLY when checking out other peoples work.
the wireless connection are an awesome feaure, but it can greatly confuse you as you cant really have an easy way of finding where your link goes, unless the people who made the schematic made it easy to find in the first place.
so lets say you get an example schematic, which you know uses a specific module for a specific task, and you would like to quickly see how its put together, hit search within schematic, type the name of the module and find it. fast, and easy.
or lets say you were working really late on a schematic, its untidy and basicly a mess, so youre not really sure where that wireless link really goes, cause it was so late and you dont remember.. or its an old schmatic youve had lying on your drive for a while. hit search, find the module you want. quick and easy.
what do you think?
i know i would love it anyways.
Tom7777 ·
I think some form of search is a good idea, but what for example would happen if there was a module used 100 times in paste syncronized modules would it list all of them? Alot of the time this would be the case so there would be alot of results and it would probably only speed up things a bit as you wouldn't know which one would be the one you want each time so you would have to work through a list of results and if you were searching through other users schematics this would probably be the case each time you search. If however you were just searching through wireless links it would probably speed things up quite a lot.
infuzion ·
searching for a module or primitive would be cool
posh ·
aye, perhaps list the things you search for, and list where theyre located aswell, should solve that i guess?
angstrom ·
perhaps rather than duplicate the GUI elements it might be nice to use the search in the toolbox, a normal search for "wireless" in the toolbox shows the 3 wireless toolbox components with a 'usage count'. The usage count on each result could 'unfold' to show link to paths of used 'wireless out' within the schematic.
yep, I can see that being easy and quick to implement 😉
oddson ·
I think the Dev's can file this under 'nice to have' for version 2.
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