Searching the IDE for "type"

I wish to see all of the “Webdialogs” in my project.

While we do use the naming convention that ends all dialogues in “_dlg”
I literally have scores of methods that contain “_dlg”

handle_dlg
Clear_dlg

As a project gets to enterprise size, the need to be able to search for something by type becomes an issue. Please keep in mind, that naming conventions will not work when you’re using container controls because they will end up on different pages as. “_cc1”

Is there a way to do this or do I need to add a feature request?

Searching for WebDialog doesn’t work?

Not only that, when you sub class control, would be nice to be able to search for everything with the same super.

Edited out

There is a page in the OLD documentation titled “Navigator”
UserGuide:Navigator - Xojo Documentation

Found it:
Navigator — Xojo documentation

2:41 PM

But I cant find anything in the new documentation.

It looks like it used to exist.

type: WebDialog. also fails.

That’s not what Type: does though. The Type is something like “Class” or “Module”. What you’re looking for is a way to search (or filter) on Super.

Now I will say this… you can get a list of Super or Sub classes of something in the context menu. For instance, in a project I’m working on, right-clicking on a class called WixObject, I can hover the cursor over “Edit Subclasses” and get a quick list of all of its subclasses:

The weird thing is that when you click the “Type” column after searching, it doesn’t actually group the results properly. If it did, you’d have all the Declarations together, which might be helpful.

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