TDX_SearchPalette

TDX_SearchPalette #

Adds a search field to TouchDesigner's palette browser, so palette components can be found by typing instead of scrolling the folder tree. This is Yea Chen's TD-SearchPalette, vendored into the toolkit.

The component installs itself into the palette on project start while Auto Install is on (the toggle roams with your config), and can be installed or removed at any time with the Install / Uninstall pulses on its parameters.

With MY_HOTKEYS installed, ctrl+shift+f focuses the palette search field directly. The hotkey feature-detects the installed field, so it simply stays quiet when TDX_SearchPalette is absent.

Search behavior #

Matching goes beyond the original module's prefix search:

• Substring, case-insensitive — blur finds hsvBlur, radialBlur and barrel_blur, not just names that start with it.
• Multiple words AND together — audio an finds audioAnalysis.
• Ranked results — exact matches first, then names starting with the query, then everything containing it, alphabetical within each group.
• Wildcards still work — a word carrying * or ? is matched as a pattern (audio* = classic prefix search).
• Folder search — a word containing / matches the palette folder instead of the name: gen/ noise finds noise in the Generators folder, and tools/ alone lists a whole folder. Toggleable via the Folder Search parameter.
• Latest version only — numbered copies of one component (tool, tool1, tool2, or the same name in two folders) collapse to the latest-modified file. Toggleable via the Latest Version Only parameter.