My CodeRage III presentation has a few IDE hints in it http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Jeremy North wrote: >> Also many of the power features of the standard IDE are very hard to >> discover.....for instance although I have seen others demonstrate declaring >> a local variable while writing code in D2006/D2007, I have never yet found >> out how to do it. >> > > It is a template. > > In a method > Press Ctrl+Space > Type in var and hit enter > > You should now have the following inserted > LVar: Integer; > > Where LVar will be highlighted. Type in your variable name and press > Tab (or Enter if it is an integer), then enter in the type and press > enter (or tab). > > I prefer to use the Declare variable refactoring where you type in > your code as usual and then use Shift+Ctrl+V on the variable name to > declare it locally or Shift+Ctrl+D to declare in in the interface > section of the class. > > The reason you have to use Ctrl+Space is because the template is only > available using manual invoking. You can change it to invoke > automatically but that would drive you nuts with the template being > used when you don't really want it to. You could easily rename the > template to something else (such as va) and set that template to > "auto" invoking. To see other templates you can use the View | > Templates command. > > I wrote an expert for creating and editing templates, just never got > around to publishing it. If you have questions on templates, I > _should_ be able to answer them. > > cheers, > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
