TextPane2::IncrementalSearch Property

Visual Studio 2015
 

Provides access to the incremental search (ISearch) capability of the text editor.

Namespace:   EnvDTE80
Assembly:  EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)

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property IncrementalSearch^ IncrementalSearch {
	IncrementalSearch^ get();
}

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE80::IncrementalSearch^

An IncrementalSearch object.

This example opens a text document, creates an IncrementalSearch object, and then searches for the character "t" in the text displayed on the text pane

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Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Sub TextPane2IncrementalSearchExample(ByVal dte As DTE2)
    Dim objTW As TextWindow
    Dim objPane As TextPane2
    Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
    Dim objTextPt As TextPoint
    Dim objEP As EditPoint
    Dim incSearch As IncrementalSearch
    ' Create a new text document.
    _applicationObject.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")
    ' Get a handle to the new document and create EditPoint,
    ' TextPoint, and TextPane objects.
    objTextDoc = CType(_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object _
     ("TextDocument"), TextDocument)
    objEP = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
    objTextPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint
    ' Plug in some text.
    objEP.Insert("A test sentence.")
    objTW = CType(dte.ActiveWindow.Object, TextWindow)
    objPane = CType(objTW.ActivePane, TextPane2)
    ' Create an incremental search object.
    incSearch = objPane.IncrementalSearch
    incSearch.StartForward()
    MsgBox("Searching for a 't'.")
    incSearch.AppendCharAndSearch(Asc("t"))
    incSearch.Exit()
End Sub
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