SM-ModSearch

A small native mod for Scrap Mechanic that adds a search bar to the mod list in the Creative Mode menu. If you've got a big modpack installed, scrolling through every entry to find the one you want gets old fast - this just lets you type a name and filter the list down.

It works by hooking into the game's creative menu refresh function and injecting a search bar into the ModBoxPanel header, then re-filtering the ItemBox list whenever the search text changes.

Screenshot

Building

This project uses xmake. It targets Windows x64 and builds a shared library (SM-ModSearch.dll) meant to be loaded alongside Scrap Mechanic.

xmake

It depends on minhook for the function hook, and links against MyGUIEngine.dll (the game ships this without an import lib, so one gets generated at build time from mygui_engine.def).

How it works

• hook_creativemenu detours the game's CreativeModeMenu::sub_1402F51A0 function, which rebuilds the mod list ItemBoxes on every tab switch or refresh.
• searchbar lazily creates the search bar the first time it sees a given menu instance, and applies the current search text as a name filter over the already-populated mod list.

Status

Early / work in progress. Built and tested against a specific Scrap Mechanic version - the RVA used for the hook may break on game updates.