Geometry preview - search feature

[antoine-galataud]

Enhancement Request

Use case: an EnergyPlus simulation is run and there are some errors / warnings about surfaces / thermal zones in eplusout.err. It can be useful to quickly show the concerned objects in geometry preview.

This is more relevant for larger buildings or when no naming convention was applied (ie Surface 202, Surface 203 ...), as it'll often imply long look up times.

[macumber]

This looks cool @antoine-galataud, thanks!

I'd also like to apply this as a PR to https://github.com/NREL/openstudio-common-measures-gem/tree/develop/lib/measures/view_data and https://github.com/NREL/openstudio-common-measures-gem/tree/develop/lib/measures/view_model and will tag you on that (unless you want to make the pr yourself?)

[macumber]

I might also try to make the search function search according to the current render mode and also to highlight all matching surfaces.

[antoine-galataud]

@macumber thanks!

I might also try to make the search function search according to the current render mode

Not sure how well it will render? From a user experience perspective I found keeping only wireframe displayed is visually appealing.

also to highlight all matching surfaces

Totally makes sense. Please see my latest commit and below example of implementation

Note: displayed information about matching results will be limited to 2 objects, to avoid overflow in main frame.

[antoine-galataud]

@macumber just re-read your last comment and realized I misunderstood. Did you mean searching only among objects having type equal to current render mode? Would make sense indeed

[antoine-galataud]

@macumber I implemented search according to current render mode, so it will search only among objects that match render by type.