SearchBar

This FreeCAD mod adds a search bar for tools, document objects and preferences.

⚠️ Several issues related to the C++ memory management interacting badly with Python's have caused lots of segfaults during development. ⚠️

⚠️️ Most of these should now be solved, but save your work often and proceed with caution while testing this extension. ⚠️

Extensibility

It can be extended by other mods, by adding a new result provider.

The search bar appars next to the What's this? tool, in FreeCAD's default File toolbar.

Clone the GIT repository or extract the .zip downloaded from GitHub to the following location:

Remove the folder which was cloned during installation:
- Linux: ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/SearchBar
- macos: /Users/user_name/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Mod/SearchBar
- Windows: C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod\SearchBar
Optional: Remove the cache (~30MB) ~/.FreeCAD/Cache_SearchBarMod or equivalent on other platforms

InitGui.py adds an instance of SearchBoxLight to the GUI.
SearchBoxLight is a hollowed-out implementation of a search box, it loads everything lazily.

This repository is in the public domain.