Feature Request: Add search feature and owner information to Craft/Objects panel.

I regularly use SEToolbox to maintain the world data for a dedicated server. We currently have around 300 discrete entities in the world (asteroids, planets, ships etc) and it would save me a lot of time if there were some extra functions for finding the entity(s) that I'm looking for in the Craft/Objects list.

Primarily, a search box so I can type in a ship name and have it highlighted in the list (or remove all other entities except anything that matches the search term).

Secondly, could we have an additional column (added by right clicking one of the existing column headers if you don't want to have it included by default) that shows the owner name of each entity? It would be incredibly useful to be able to sort the list by owner so I can see how many ships each person has etc.

Additionally, with 300 items in the list, it sometimes (not always) gets quite laggy scrolling through the entities. Can anything be done about this?

Finally, I would like to suggest an alteration to the way blocks are sorted in the 'Cubes' tab of the Entity panel. Could we have it so that when the user sorts the list of blocks by a particular category (by left clicking on the column header) it takes (at least) the last two column sorter clicks into account?

For example, often when I'm browsing for a server to join on certain online games, I'll first sort the list by ping, and then sort the list by game mode. If sorting has been correctly implemented I'll get the servers listed by game mode, and then within each game mode the servers will be listed by ping. So I can scroll to the game mode I want to play and then find the server with the lowest ping.

This would be very useful when searching for blocks where multiple criteria are important (e.g. blocks of a certain colour, that are less 50% build progress), particularly on very large ships.

Thanks for reading and considering these changes.

Reg_Ed

Review the Craft/Objects panel and the Entity panel's Cubes tab first. The request covers search, owner columns and sorting, scrolling performance, and multi-column sorting; done means these requested behaviors work reliably for large entity and block lists.