BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Surprise editor feature Goto page 1, 2  Next          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Jeremy Collins Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:37 am    Post subject: Surprise editor feature Hi all, I'm guessing 90% of you knew this already, but for for those that don't... I was just typing a function prototype in a class definition: : private : function GetServer : string; : end; Normally after I type such a declaration, I select the line, hit Ctrl+C to copy it, and paste it into the implementation section to write the body of the code. I accidentally hit Ctrl+Shift+C and Delphi inserted the function body for me! -- jc Remove the -not from email Back to top Jorgen Bodde Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:44 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature That's alled code completion ;-) Works on property fields as well, and if you create a function body without declaring it, it also auto creates the class method declaration for you if you type property SomeProperty : String read FProperty write FProperty; and hit Ctrl-Shift-C, it creates the member var FProperty in your private field. - Jorgen Jeremy Collins wrote: Quote: Hi all, I'm guessing 90% of you knew this already, but for for those that don't... I was just typing a function prototype in a class definition: : private : function GetServer : string; : end; Normally after I type such a declaration, I select the line, hit Ctrl+C to copy it, and paste it into the implementation section to write the body of the code. I accidentally hit Ctrl+Shift+C and Delphi inserted the function body for me! -- wxCRP - A Flexible Programmable Code Generator and Repository Tool! http://www.xs4all.nl/~jorgb/wxcrp/ Back to top J French Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:39 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:37:42 +0000, Jeremy Collins <jd.collins (AT) ntlworld-not (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: Hi all, I'm guessing 90% of you knew this already, but for for those that don't... I was just typing a function prototype in a class definition: : private : function GetServer : string; : end; Normally after I type such a declaration, I select the line, hit Ctrl+C to copy it, and paste it into the implementation section to write the body of the code. I accidentally hit Ctrl+Shift+C and Delphi inserted the function body for me! You can also get it from the Right Click Menu - Complete Class at Cursor It can either auto generate a procedure - or push a declaration of a procedure up in the Class's Type declaration Quite nifty Back to top Jeremy Collins Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature J French wrote: Quote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:37:42 +0000, Jeremy Collins [email]jd.collins (AT) ntlworld-not (DOT) com[/email]> wrote: Hi all, I'm guessing 90% of you knew this already, but for for those that don't... You can also get it from the Right Click Menu - Complete Class at Cursor It can either auto generate a procedure - or push a declaration of a procedure up in the Class's Type declaration Yep, everyone else did know about this ;-) I thought I'd read up on code completion / code insight etc, but obviously missed one of the most useful bits! Quote: Quite nifty Yes, wish I'd discovered it ages ago! -- jc Remove the -not from email Back to top J French Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:46:39 +0000, Jeremy Collins <jd.collins (AT) ntlworld-not (DOT) com> wrote: <snip> Quote: Yep, everyone else did know about this ;-) I thought I'd read up on code completion / code insight etc, but obviously missed one of the most useful bits! Quite nifty Yes, wish I'd discovered it ages ago! Just think about the people who have been alerted to it by your post .... which will remain in Google for years I do think that we should have something in the FAQ about this sort of stuff - the trouble is that I'm too idle to do it Back to top Jeremy Collins Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature J French wrote: Quote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:46:39 +0000, Jeremy Collins [email]jd.collins (AT) ntlworld-not (DOT) com[/email]> wrote: snip Yep, everyone else did know about this ;-) I thought I'd read up on code completion / code insight etc, but obviously missed one of the most useful bits! Quite nifty Yes, wish I'd discovered it ages ago! Just think about the people who have been alerted to it by your post That's a comfort. I've been using Delphi since version 1, and I was up to Delphi 3 before I realised that when you had a component selected in the form designer, you could press ESC to select the parent. I was happy enough to post a message on this newsgroup then, as well! (Almost 5 years ago - gah). And it was only a couple of months ago that I noticed that the "ImageIndex" property for TActions (etc) in the OE has a drop-down list of the icons in the associated imagelist. Up to then I'd been forever double-clicking imagelists and making a mental note of the index. I must take time out to discover all the *other* little tweaks that have been added to the IDE... -- jc Remove the -not from email Back to top J French Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:08:37 +0000, Jeremy Collins <jd.collins (AT) ntlworld-not (DOT) com> wrote: <snip> Quote: I must take time out to discover all the *other* little tweaks that have been added to the IDE... And even more time out to publish them - something of which I wholeheartedly approve - but am too idle to do myself Back to top Nicholas Sherlock Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature Jeremy Collins wrote: Quote: Hi all, I'm guessing 90% of you knew this already, but for for those that don't... snip I accidentally hit Ctrl+Shift+C and Delphi inserted the function body for me! I know it, and I wish I didn't! I went somewhere with a Delphi version with code completion, and it saved me SO much time... then I go home to discover that my Delphi 5 (Standard) doesn't include code completion! Had I known about code completion, I'd have bought professional edition. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock Back to top Maarten Wiltink Guest Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature "J French" <erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote [...] Quote: I do think that we should have something in the FAQ about this sort of stuff - the trouble is that I'm too idle to do it The idea was floated some time ago, but unfortunately I was too idle as well. There was another thing: some shiny! *not*to*be*missed* _adds_inches_ keyboard shortcuts were mentioned that turned out to be provided by add-ins and minimum Delphi versions. This made collecting a list not only more work but much more awkward, and in the end I didn't quite feel up to it. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink Back to top J French Guest Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:42 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:45:57 +0100, "Maarten Wiltink" <maarten (AT) kittensandcats (DOT) net> wrote: Quote: "J French" <erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote in message news:3fd87f61.17044365 (AT) news (DOT) btclick.com... [...] I do think that we should have something in the FAQ about this sort of stuff - the trouble is that I'm too idle to do it The idea was floated some time ago, but unfortunately I was too idle as well. There was another thing: some shiny! *not*to*be*missed* _adds_inches_ keyboard shortcuts were mentioned that turned out to be provided by add-ins and minimum Delphi versions. This made collecting a list not only more work but much more awkward, and in the end I didn't quite feel up to it. Ditto ! Back to top Jan Schnackenberg Guest Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:40 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature Hi Bjørge Sæther wrote: Quote: 2. Select the watch, right-click and select "Break when changed". This menu item is enabled when being within a debugging session, and only when the variable / property is within scope of the debugger (it needs to be able to read the address of the variable). 3. Voilá ! Now you can hit F9 to make it run again, sit back and wait till the variable is modified, no matter where it happens ! Cooooooooooool! Thank you. I do believe that this will help me in one of those Debuggin-Sessions "WTF changes this friggin Variable". :) Ciao, Jan -- /" ASCII RIBBON PS2-Assistent / CAMPAIGN Antworten bitte ausschliesslich an die Newsgroup X AGAINST HTML Links zu Delphi und dem verhalten in Newsgroups: / IN MAIL AND NEWS ---> http://www.fh-wedel.de/~snb/ <--- Back to top VBDis Guest Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:17 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature Im Artikel <3fd84ada$0$214$e4fe514c (AT) news (DOT) xs4all.nl>, Jorgen Bodde <jorgb (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> schreibt: Quote: if you type property SomeProperty : String read FProperty write FProperty; and hit Ctrl-Shift-C, it creates the member var FProperty in your private field. Property completion can lead to unwanted effects! When you define a property like above, which shall refer to the already existing FProperty field of a base class, then this field is hidden by the newly created field in the actual class. This is why I have disabled property completion all the time. DoDi Back to top Rick Carter Guest Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:10 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature "Nicholas Sherlock" <n_sherlock (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I went somewhere with a Delphi version with code completion, and it saved me SO much time... then I go home to discover that my Delphi 5 (Standard) doesn't include code completion! Had I known about code completion, I'd have bought professional edition. Oh? Well, Delphi 6 Personal was available as a free download for over a year (and can still be registered for free, if you have a friend with the files), and includes at least the basic functions of Code Completion. Rick Carter Chair, Paradox/Delphi SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group Back to top Nicholas Sherlock Guest Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:36 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature Rick Carter wrote: Quote: "Nicholas Sherlock" <n_sherlock (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:<braech$khc$1 (AT) lust (DOT) ihug.co.nz>... I went somewhere with a Delphi version with code completion, and it saved me SO much time... then I go home to discover that my Delphi 5 (Standard) doesn't include code completion! Had I known about code completion, I'd have bought professional edition. Oh? Well, Delphi 6 Personal was available as a free download for over a year (and can still be registered for free, if you have a friend with the files), and includes at least the basic functions of Code Completion. But, then I wouldn't be able to distribute anything I made using Delphi 6 Personal (That's why I'm running a Standard edition and not a Personal). :) Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock Back to top J French Guest Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:35 am    Post subject: Re: Surprise editor feature On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:36:19 +1300, "Nicholas Sherlock" <n_sherlock (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: Rick Carter wrote: "Nicholas Sherlock" <n_sherlock (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:<braech$khc$1 (AT) lust (DOT) ihug.co.nz>... I went somewhere with a Delphi version with code completion, and it saved me SO much time... then I go home to discover that my Delphi 5 (Standard) doesn't include code completion! Had I known about code completion, I'd have bought professional edition. Oh? Well, Delphi 6 Personal was available as a free download for over a year (and can still be registered for free, if you have a friend with the files), and includes at least the basic functions of Code Completion. But, then I wouldn't be able to distribute anything I made using Delphi 6 Personal (That's why I'm running a Standard edition and not a Personal). 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