Is there a "search in the entire project" feature?

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I know there is a “search in current event sheet”, but I don’t see any way to search the entire project at once.

The moment your project gets serious and you loss the ability to remember where everything is, this function is one of the most needed to keep your sanity. The only alternative if manually searching in every event sheet, but that’s a massive waste of time and mental energy.

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Depends on what you are searching so what are you searching?

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I would like to know the answer to this as well! For example, playing around with different object variables, adding some, deleting others, etc., I sometimes encounter a message at the bottom of the variables list: “There are variables used in events but not declared in this list.” The question is: Which events? It would be very nice to search for a variable (myVar) in every Event sheet without opening each one independantly. Is there a way to do this?

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I don’t think that’s important. It can be anything, a string, a variable name, an object name, whatever.

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Is there a way to do this?

there’s not. maybe the workaround for this would be opening the json file in text editor and try searching here, but I doubt it would be any more convenient than searching in every event sheet manually in GD.

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Well that’s what debugger and resource tab are for.
Atleast that’s how I search for something

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The Resource tab is a good way to view all the project assets in use (although I don’t see a search function that would help locate assets in large projects). In the Debugger, you can find the current value of a specific variable, but I don’t see a way to search the specific Event sheets where that variable might be used or set.

The feature to search for a variable’s use in a specific Event sheet already exists. Maybe this can be expanded in the future to display ALL of the Event sheets where this variable is located. I know it would help me!

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