Is there a Plugin for Better Filtering the Delphi 2006 Component Palette items?

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I have hundreds of components in my Delphi 2006 installation, but I always have trouble finding those I haven't used before and that may be the solution for what I need at the moment. I have many undocumented packages, but by the name of the component you can have an idea of what it does.

For example:

I need a RadioButton, so I have TRadioButton, TElRadioButton or TAdvRadioButton to choose which one has the custom properties that I need.

But when I click the Filter Button of the Tool Palette, I have to Type from the beginning of the component name. If I could have a field editor where I could type only a part of the name and the Palette showed me the components that had that term in the middle of the name too, I would make my day!!!

Does anyone know how in Delphi 2006?

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I know that Delphi XE2 has this filter field.

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You don't need to filter (tested in D2007; don't have 2006 installed). Just click on the component palette where it says Tool Palette and type button, and it filters down to a list of components with button anywhere in the name. For instance, typing but shows me TButton, TSpeedButton, TSpinButton, TCategoryButtons, and TButtonGroup at the top (visible) part of the component palette. - Ken White
@Ken, the filter behavior was changed from "starts with" to "contains" in Delphi 2007. Delphi 2005 and Delphi 2006 only ignore the leading T. - Rob Kennedy
@Rob: I thought it was added with the change to the Galileo IDE; I haven't used either of them in so long I couldn't remember for sure. Thanks for the correction. - Ken White
So, the answer is: move to Delphi 2007. Delphi 2006 is buggy as heck. Get OUT of there, and get Delphi 2007. It's even (MOSTLY) binary compatible with Delphi 2006. - Warren P
Will that be too much different from 2006 in code and component compatibilities? @WarrenP - Please_Dont_Bully_Me_SO_Lords

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The DDevExtensions IDE extension (http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/ide-tools/ddevextensions/) has a Component Selector that does what you need

(also using D2006, so it definitely works)