Searching the design hierachy when the top-level is not expanded

[rbarzic]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with simview and it seems that the search function (/) for the design hierarchy (left panel when only a vcd is loaded) works only on visible instantiated modules.
For example, I want to search for an module instantiated as U_CPU that is several levels "deep" into the hierarchy. It seems that the search function only works if the hierarchy has been expanded enough up to the parent level.
So my questions are:

• is there a shortcut to expand the hierarchy completely?
• is there another shortcut that allows search of instantiated modules in "non-visible" part of the hierarchy (or maybe a special syntax for the search pattern) ?

Thank you

[pieter3d]

That's currently not possible. The reason for that is because the hierarchy is loaded lazily, to prevent a potentially huge hierarchy from being loaded at startup.

However, the design is internally elaborated anyway so it may not be such a large structure.

Would you mind filing a feature request? I can look into a clean way of doing this. One concern that comes to mind is how to handle live searching as you type, it might jump all over the hierarchy and expand a bunch of stuff creating lots of clutter.