Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2012-01-22 Thread Martin
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Many times I am working with large classes that are much bigger than what is visible in the editor view. Is there any way the tooltip shown over a property or method can include visibility information? That way I can simply hover the move over a method or

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2012-01-22 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23 January 2012 01:25, Martin wrote: Compile the IDE with WithSynInfoView defined (then watch the top of the editor, when the info is off screen) Note this is alpha (should be crash free, but looks like ---) Thanks Martin, I'll give it a try. -- Regards,   - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
waldo kitty wrote: speaking for myself (and i guess there are many like me), i develop on the fly and those times that i do write documentation, i do tend to do it as i develop a routine... this offers me two items of interest... first being that the doc for that routine is written and My

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-20 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Vincent Snijders wrote: I meant: I wonder who said that programmers are not users. I think it was from the Lazarus has unique font sizes message thread. I can't really remember the exact context or person. I read to many newsgroups and mailing lists to remember

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: I meant: I wonder who said that programmers are not users. I think it was from the Lazarus has unique font sizes message thread. I can't really remember the exact context or person. I read to many newsgroups and mailing lists to remember everything. ;-) Regards,

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: Please read carefully. Otherwise you are reading things that are not written and you get a skewed world view. From that thread: Lazarus is not a tool for any user - it is a tool only for programmers. OK, I did some searching. You are correct about the quoted message,

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Mattias Gaertner wrote: That way I can simply hover the move over a method or property and see if it is protected or public etc... Implemented in 21283. Hi Mattias, I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't have any visibility specified. I'm using Lazarus r21307

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gaertner wrote: That way I can simply hover the move over a method or property and see if it is protected or public etc... Implemented in 21283. Hi Mattias, I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Mattias Gärtner wrote: I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't Fixed. Thanks, those errors are now gone, but the tooltip still doesn't seem to display the visibility in all cases. See attached images. In image 2 it shows the property as public which is correct,

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net: Mattias Gärtner wrote: I get an error in the IDE Messages window. And the tooltip doesn't Fixed. Thanks, those errors are now gone, but the tooltip still doesn't seem to display the visibility in all cases. See attached images. In

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: This was my experience as well, when working on PasDoc. That's why I implemented the editor for PasDoc2 to not touch the source code for Interesting idea, but why not simply use fpdoc (included with FPC) instead of modifying PasDoc? And for Delphi users, give

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread waldo kitty
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: though developers still seem to keep adding docs inline. :-( speaking for myself (and i guess there are many like me), i develop on the fly and those times that i do write documentation, i do tend to do it as i develop a routine... this offers me two items of

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Vincent Snijders
waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and applications... i am a simple user of

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread Vincent Snijders
Vincent Snijders schreef: waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create their tools and

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-19 Thread waldo kitty
Vincent Snijders wrote: Vincent Snijders schreef: waldo kitty schreef: and that last statement brings me to a comment you (Graeme) made the other day... i feel the same as you (and no flame intended to anyone) that programmers ARE users... they are users of the tools they use to create

[Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Many times I am working with large classes that are much bigger than what is visible in the editor view. Is there any way the tooltip shown over a property or method can include visibility information? That way I can simply hover the move over a method or property and see if it is

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Many times I am working with large classes that are much bigger than what is visible in the editor view. Is there any way the tooltip shown over a property or method can include visibility information? That way I can simply hover the move

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:23:32 +0100 Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Many times I am working with large classes that are much bigger than what is visible in the editor view. Is there any way the tooltip shown over a property or method can include visibility

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Martin
Mattias Gaertner wrote: A path information would indeed be nice. Especially if you are in a nested procedure. The statusbar has not enough space for this. What about the code explorer? A node can be added showing a list of quick jumps. For example when you are in a nested procedure, it can show

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/8/18 Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org: Combining this with some of your other posts, I'd say you're in dire need of a bigger monitor. Laptops are no good for serious development :-) My daily work gets done on a desktop PC with 1440x900 resolution LCD display. At least it's much

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/8/18 Martin laza...@mfriebe.de: While not as nice, there is a way. right click the fold gutter (assuming you have folding at class-sections enabled) I know about that feature and use it often. I think it was added per my request. ;-) That popup menu works very well to find out what

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/8/18 Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de: Implemented in 21283. You are a star! :-) I'll give it a try tomorrow at work. A path information would indeed be nice. Especially if you are in a nested procedure. The statusbar has not enough space for this. +1 on both counts.

Re: [Lazarus] codetools tooltip showing method visibility

2009-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/8/18 Martin laza...@mfriebe.de: I use it all the time, because SynEdit is rather huge too. So it's the quickest way to know if something is public or whatever. Excellent! IMHO with large, even medium classes, being able to fold away for example the private part is a good thing anyway.