Search box - images

Up front, I hardly ever have used Windows 7 Explorer,but for whatever reason I had it open and needed to search for a .jpg file.
The right window panel showed all the thumbnails and thumbnails for some subfolders.
I entered a search string in the right hand top corner searchbox.

and immediately the files were selected - presented in thumbnail view - based on incremental search.

Directory Opus has for more features and is highly configurable, but I do have to confess that specifically this
feature is very attractive.

Incremental search - in an existing searchbox (i.e. no ctrl-f or so) and results in being presented in the view
that was in use the moment the search started (i.e. thumbnails, details..)

Have looked all over in DO, but assume it is not there ?

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For the current folder, you can do it. For subfolders you'll still have to run a button via hotkey/menu/toolbar to start the search (or invoke flat-view).