Outliner Live-Search Bugfixes:

Ton's commits missed the RNA changes needed to make this work (i.e. the search field was un-defined). This has now been added, and the search field has the 'search eyeglass' icon to make its purpose clearer.

I've also taken this opportunity to restore the search matching flags (i.e. case sensitivity and complete vs partial matches), making these separate toggle options instead. The old searching operator stuff can probably be removed now?

release/scripts/ui/space_outliner.py

@@ -36,12 +36,13 @@ class OUTLINER_HT_header(bpy.types.Header):
         if context.area.show_menus:
             sub = row.row(align=True)
             sub.menu("OUTLINER_MT_view")
+            sub.menu("OUTLINER_MT_search")
             if space.display_mode == 'DATABLOCKS':
                 sub.menu("OUTLINER_MT_edit_datablocks")
 
         layout.prop(space, "display_mode", text="")
 
-        layout.prop(space, "display_filter", text="")
+        layout.prop(space, "display_filter", icon='VIEWZOOM', text="")
 
         layout.separator()
 
@@ -84,6 +85,18 @@ class OUTLINER_MT_view(bpy.types.Menu):
         layout.operator("screen.area_dupli")
         layout.operator("screen.screen_full_area")
 
+class OUTLINER_MT_search(bpy.types.Menu):
+    bl_label = "Search"
+
+    def draw(self, context):
+        layout = self.layout
+
+        space = context.space_data
+
+        col = layout.column()
+
+        col.prop(space, "match_case_sensitive")
+        col.prop(space, "match_complete")
 
 class OUTLINER_MT_edit_datablocks(bpy.types.Menu):
     bl_label = "Edit"
@@ -105,6 +118,7 @@ class OUTLINER_MT_edit_datablocks(bpy.types.Menu):
 classes = [
     OUTLINER_HT_header,
     OUTLINER_MT_view,
+	OUTLINER_MT_search,
     OUTLINER_MT_edit_datablocks]
 
 

source/blender/editors/space_outliner/outliner.c

@@ -1240,14 +1240,18 @@ static int outliner_filter_has_name(TreeElement *te, char *name, int flags)
 	int found= 0;
 	
 	/* determine if match */
-	if(flags==OL_FIND)
+	if (flags & SO_FIND_CASE_SENSITIVE) {
-		found= BLI_strcasestr(te->name, name)!=NULL;
+		if (flags & SO_FIND_COMPLETE)
-	else if(flags==OL_FIND_CASE)
+			found= strcmp(te->name, name) == 0;
-		found= strstr(te->name, name)!=NULL;
+		else
-	else if(flags==OL_FIND_COMPLETE)
+			found= strstr(te->name, name) != NULL;
-		found= BLI_strcasecmp(te->name, name)==0;
+	}
-	else
+	else {
-		found= strcmp(te->name, name)==0;
+		if (flags & SO_FIND_COMPLETE)
+			found= BLI_strcasecmp(te->name, name) == 0;
+		else
+			found= BLI_strcasestr(te->name, name) != NULL;
+	}
 	
 	return found;
 }
@@ -1261,8 +1265,10 @@ static void outliner_filter_tree(SpaceOops *soops, ListBase *lb)
 	for (te= lb->first; te; te= ten) {
 		ten= te->next;
 		
-		if(0==outliner_filter_has_name(te, soops->search_string, OL_FIND)) {
+		if(0==outliner_filter_has_name(te, soops->search_string, soops->search_flags)) {
-			
+			/* FIXME: users probably expect to be able to matches nested inside these non-matches... 
+			 *	i.e. searching for "Cu" under the default scene, users want the Cube, but scene fails so nothing appears
+			 */
 			outliner_free_tree(&te->subtree);
 			BLI_remlink(lb, te);
 			
@@ -2686,17 +2692,7 @@ static TreeElement *outliner_find_named(SpaceOops *soops, ListBase *lb, char *na
 	TreeElement *te, *tes;
 	
 	for (te= lb->first; te; te= te->next) {
-		int found;
+		int found = outliner_filter_has_name(te, name, flags);
-		
-		/* determine if match */
-		if(flags==OL_FIND)
-			found= BLI_strcasestr(te->name, name)!=NULL;
-		else if(flags==OL_FIND_CASE)
-			found= strstr(te->name, name)!=NULL;
-		else if(flags==OL_FIND_COMPLETE)
-			found= BLI_strcasecmp(te->name, name)==0;
-		else
-			found= strcmp(te->name, name)==0;
 		
 		if(found) {
 			/* name is right, but is element the previous one? */
@@ -2752,7 +2748,7 @@ void outliner_find_panel(Scene *scene, ARegion *ar, SpaceOops *soops, int again,
 	TreeElement *last_find;
 	TreeStoreElem *tselem;
 	int ytop, xdelta, prevFound=0;
-	char name[33];
+	char name[32];
 	
 	/* get last found tree-element based on stored search_tse */
 	last_find= outliner_find_tse(soops, &soops->search_tse);
@@ -2760,7 +2756,7 @@ void outliner_find_panel(Scene *scene, ARegion *ar, SpaceOops *soops, int again,
 	/* determine which type of search to do */
 	if (again && last_find) {
 		/* no popup panel - previous + user wanted to search for next after previous */		
-		BLI_strncpy(name, soops->search_string, 33);
+		BLI_strncpy(name, soops->search_string, sizeof(name));
 		flags= soops->search_flags;
 		
 		/* try to find matching element */

source/blender/editors/space_outliner/outliner_intern.h

@@ -99,12 +99,6 @@ typedef struct TreeElement {
 #define TSE_KEYMAP			34
 #define TSE_KEYMAP_ITEM		35
 
-/* outliner search flags */
-#define OL_FIND					0
-#define OL_FIND_CASE			1
-#define OL_FIND_COMPLETE		2
-#define OL_FIND_COMPLETE_CASE	3
-
 /* button events */
 #define OL_NAMEBUTTON		1
 

source/blender/makesdna/DNA_space_types.h

@@ -814,6 +814,10 @@ enum {
 		/* if set, it allows redraws. gets set for some allqueue events */
 #define SO_TREESTORE_REDRAW		2
 
+/* outliner search flags (SpaceOops->search_flags) */
+#define SO_FIND_CASE_SENSITIVE		(1<<0)
+#define SO_FIND_COMPLETE			(1<<1)
+
 /* headerbuttons: 450-499 */
 
 #define B_IMASELHOME		451

source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_space.c

@@ -759,20 +759,20 @@ static void rna_def_space_outliner(BlenderRNA *brna)
 	PropertyRNA *prop;
 
 	static EnumPropertyItem display_mode_items[] = {
-		{0, "ALL_SCENES", 0, "All Scenes", ""},
+		{SO_ALL_SCENES, "ALL_SCENES", 0, "All Scenes", ""},
-		{1, "CURRENT_SCENE", 0, "Current Scene", ""},
+		{SO_CUR_SCENE, "CURRENT_SCENE", 0, "Current Scene", ""},
-		{2, "VISIBLE_LAYERS", 0, "Visible Layers", ""},
+		{SO_VISIBLE, "VISIBLE_LAYERS", 0, "Visible Layers", ""},
-		{3, "SELECTED", 0, "Selected", ""},
+		{SO_SELECTED, "SELECTED", 0, "Selected", ""},
-		{4, "ACTIVE", 0, "Active", ""},
+		{SO_ACTIVE, "ACTIVE", 0, "Active", ""},
-		{5, "SAME_TYPES", 0, "Same Types", ""},
+		{SO_SAME_TYPE, "SAME_TYPES", 0, "Same Types", ""},
-		{6, "GROUPS", 0, "Groups", ""},
+		{SO_GROUPS, "GROUPS", 0, "Groups", ""},
-		{7, "LIBRARIES", 0, "Libraries", ""},
+		{SO_LIBRARIES, "LIBRARIES", 0, "Libraries", ""},
-		{10, "SEQUENCE", 0, "Sequence", ""},
+		{SO_SEQUENCE, "SEQUENCE", 0, "Sequence", ""},
-		{11, "DATABLOCKS", 0, "Datablocks", ""},
+		{SO_DATABLOCKS, "DATABLOCKS", 0, "Datablocks", ""},
-		{12, "USER_PREFERENCES", 0, "User Preferences", ""},
+		{SO_USERDEF, "USER_PREFERENCES", 0, "User Preferences", ""},
-		{13, "KEYMAPS", 0, "Key Maps", ""},
+		{SO_KEYMAP, "KEYMAPS", 0, "Key Maps", ""},
 		{0, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL}};
-
+	
 	srna= RNA_def_struct(brna, "SpaceOutliner", "Space");
 	RNA_def_struct_sdna(srna, "SpaceOops");
 	RNA_def_struct_ui_text(srna, "Space Outliner", "Outliner space data");
@@ -782,12 +782,26 @@ static void rna_def_space_outliner(BlenderRNA *brna)
 	RNA_def_property_enum_items(prop, display_mode_items);
 	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Display Mode", "Type of information to display");
 	RNA_def_property_update(prop, NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_OUTLINER, NULL);
-
+	
+	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "display_filter", PROP_STRING, PROP_NONE);
+	RNA_def_property_string_sdna(prop, NULL, "search_string");
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Display Filter", "Live search filtering string");
+	RNA_def_property_update(prop, NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_OUTLINER, NULL);
+	
+	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "match_case_sensitive", PROP_BOOLEAN, PROP_NONE);
+	RNA_def_property_boolean_sdna(prop, NULL, "search_flags", SO_FIND_CASE_SENSITIVE);
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Case Sensitive Matches Only", "Only use case sensitive matches of search string");
+	RNA_def_property_update(prop, NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_OUTLINER, NULL);
+	
+	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "match_complete", PROP_BOOLEAN, PROP_NONE);
+	RNA_def_property_boolean_sdna(prop, NULL, "search_flags", SO_FIND_COMPLETE);
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Complete Matches Only", "Only use complete matches of search string");
+	RNA_def_property_update(prop, NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_OUTLINER, NULL);
+	
 	prop= RNA_def_property(srna, "show_restriction_columns", PROP_BOOLEAN, PROP_NONE);
 	RNA_def_property_boolean_negative_sdna(prop, NULL, "flag", SO_HIDE_RESTRICTCOLS);
-	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Show Restriction Columns", "Show colum");
+	RNA_def_property_ui_text(prop, "Show Restriction Columns", "Show column");
 	RNA_def_property_update(prop, NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_OUTLINER, NULL);
-
 }
 
 static void rna_def_background_image(BlenderRNA *brna)