GUI Introduction > Element Search Dialog

Sometimes you may need to find out an element in a big plot. If you remember some characters of that element, you can find it easily via element search. You can open the element search dialog via the "Find Element..." button above the editing area, or you can press Ctrl + F (or Command + F in Mac OS) to call the element search dialog:

open_elem_searcher

The element search dialog looks like this:

element_search_dialog

You can input keywords and press the "Search" button (or press ENTER on keyboard) to start the searching. If you have multiple keywords, you can separate them with spaces or commas. Please remember: if you input several keywords, the element will not be listed until it satisfy all keywords. For example, you use two keywords: "Text" and "Edit", then search in Id, the search results will contain all TextEditBox elements, but no TextBox element will be listed.

If you check the "Case sensitive" option, the search will be case sensitive.

If you check the "Current page only" option, the search will be performed in current page only (Otherwise it will search in the entire plot).

You can specify the fields for searching, just check the options you need in the "Search in" area. The fields belong to three categories:

1.	The "Id", "Note", "Text" and "Action" fields are for common string comparison, the element will be added into results if any of the fields contains the given keywords.

element_search_string

2.	The "X", "Y", "Z", "Width" and "Height" fields can be used to find elements that has rough or certain numeric property. The cases below are all supported:

element_search_number element_search_number_eq

element_search_number_lg element_search_number_lt

3.	The "State" and "Visible" fields can match elements that in certain status, such as:

element_search_disable element_search_hidden