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Using Find Tool

The Object Browser is supplied with the Find toolbox. This tool allows performing context search of the items in the Object Browser:

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The Find toolbox can be invoked in several ways:

Pressing <Escape> key closes the Find toolbox.

The search is always started from the first selected item in the Object Browser. If there are no selected items, the search is started from the top of the Object Browser contents. If there is an item which satisfies the search conditions, it is selected and the Object Browser is expanded to show this item (if it is collapsed).

The Find toolbox provides a set of widgets which are used to perform the search operations or change the search conditions:

If there are no items satisfying the search conditions in the Object Browser, the edit control of the Find toolbox becomes red-colored:

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The Find toolbox also has an auto-hiding feature. This works as follows:


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