Class Browser Search [launch with quick drop]

[szewczak]

The class browser (inline photo or attachment) is a great tool for working with property/invoke nodes. so much so that I open it about 75% of the time I use them. So I want to put it in my quick drop drawer!

I have a quick drop add-on that inserts a property node into a reference wire (providing class information to the node) but I can't find a way to programmatically launch the 'Class Browser Search' tool.

Has anyone run into this before? Will post full quickdrop add-on when complete or at giving up stage.

 Why Do I like using this tool? full fuzzy text search of properties for a property node is SOOO much faster than nested menus, as well as faster for finding unknown items, when looking for ideas on how to solve a problem. 

[A-Guz-Man]

Hey szewczak,

To be honest this is the first time that I run into this. I know that the quick drop enables you to call VIs that are part of the pallet/project, but just to clarify, you want it to use it to launch the "Class Browser Search" tool? 

I search if the Class Browser Search tool was a VI that you could call but that is not the case (I searched my computer with Search Everything)

[szewczak]

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@A-Guz-Man wrote:

I know that the quick drop enables you to call VIs... you want it to use it to launch the "Class Browser Search" tool? 

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Exactly, that order of operations has worked great for other quick drop tools I have used (like open library in explorer) that rely on LV components.

Bummer that you have never heard of where this 'class browser search' tool exists in LV, I realize I should of made that the focus of my question. 

Bellow is a screen shot series for where exactly this tool resides on the pallet:

1 right click on property/method node:

2 select browse

3 select search browse (magnifying glass symbol)

4. this is the class browser search tool I am referring to

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

Class Browser exists in the View menu and the shortcut to it is Ctrl-Shift-B.

With that and a single click on the magnifying glass, you have the Class Browser Search.

Wouldn't that be "quick drop" enough?

[szewczak]

Sorry but that allows you to search through the classes that include your tool, such as 'VI, Generic Object, Control'

What you get in the UI i screenshot'ed was access to the properties of that control, such as 'Value, Visable?, Object Bounds'

*****Update, LosingTeamFan was right, i was just not using the tool correctly.*****