[Draft/Discussion] Improving Search

[Amejonah1200]

As you may know, searching is one of the most important features in RE. Therefor, Recaf needs to have many ways to search for the things you want. This is a draft Issue for collecting ideas and discussing the UX side of the search. (As there are no option for discussions)

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A string, number, references and declaration searches. String and Numbers are straightforward, just type in what you want.

References and Declarations on the other hand, especially descriptors, are somewhat difficult to handle.

• [ ] Descriptors should accept primitive types as input
• [ ] Match mode should be per-field, not globally.
• [ ] results should display full descriptors

• [ ] live results

  Global class/file search is there, and member search is implemented (#576).

• [x] Visibility filter
• [x] Member type filter
• [x] Nested/inner class

• [ ] Class/Interface/Enum/Record... filter

  Lastly, a quick navigation (accessible with Ctrl + G), it enables quickly navigating only using the keyboard (and optionally the mouse) and performs a basic descriptor search.

• [ ] Display the types a little cleaner, without the descriptor syntax

• [ ] Basic filters

  TO DISCUSS: "Advanced Search" with many options, with having like the JD-GUI search as a subset of features?

[Col-E]

Descriptors should accept primitive types as input

Not sure I understand, as the descriptor format does have specific chars for primitives such as I for int.

Every other idea I like

[Amejonah1200]

After some thoughts on this matter, I created a diagram about searches (marked in blue are already implemented/wip). Now what is left to do is to prototype a search which has a large mount of configuration and usability improvements.