Hi,

I often have large classes that are bigger than what the source editor
can display at once.  I'm mainly talking about tiOPF project here.
Anyway, I receive patches for large methods and use the IDE 'goto
line' command to maybe review or modify a received patch.  Again, the
IDE only shows me lines of code, I can't clearly see which class I am
currently working in. Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow doesn't reveal this info
either, because again the class declaration is large and doesn't fit
into the source editor all at once.

Is there a way to quickly see what class I am currently in without
loosing my current position in the source code?  I was thinking of
maybe some editor shortcut that could display for a few seconds the
classname in the top right corner of the editor and then simply fade
away. Is this possible? Is there already something similar in Lazarus
IDE or another way of know what class I am currently in?

I remember in the VB6 days, there was two edit fields above the
editor. One listed the module or class (I think) and the other listed
the procedure you were in. So clearly knowing where you are is handy
to more than just me.

Regards,
 - Graeme -


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2009/4/2 ik <idokan <at> gmail.com>:

> Why not to use the Status bar for that ? It also can remain there as long as
> you inside the method etc..

I though of that just after I posted that message. Maybe the full path
unit name can be shorten with ellipses in the middle and space created
for the class name. The problem is, sometimes class names are long, so
what happens if they don't fit into the allocated area? Can you have
tooltips on a statusbar area?

Creating a editor tooltip (similar to what the original SynEdit has
for showing line numbers while you scroll) will overcome the long
class names. The tooltip can adjust to whatever size is required.

> I suggested an idea that was rejected by most people on this list: have an
> ability to split the editor, I use it in VIM for example when I need to see
> additional information without loosing my main work area.

This would be great, but is still not going to solve my problem, plus
now my editor space (visible lines I can see at once) is going to be
even smaller. I see around 43 lines of code at once in my current
editor, but have no clue what class I am in. This gets even worse if
the current method has nested procedures and functions.

Regards,
 - Graeme -