If you hadn't mentioned that lst part I would have! And I find it very annoying that Delphi suddenly reversed the order in which it's interface section code is added anyway! I liked it the old way where both the interface and implementation were written top to bottom, now it's bottom to top which can get confusing at times.
from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderotor for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Posey Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:26 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Re: Lesser Known IDE Features You Find Useful Alan Colburn wrote: > Hi all -- > > I thought it could be useful to all of us to get a thread > going where we share IDE features (or even configurations) > that we've found to boost our productivity. You might become > more efficient or happy because of a feature you didn't know > was there--and you might be able to help others do the same :-) > > In that spirit, I'll try to start ... > > Code folding is a feature in D2005 that I find useful. > However, the IDE also lets you define your own custom regions that > can be folded and unfolded. If you've got a group of procedures, for > example, that are similar and logically grouped together, you can > fold and unfold the entire group as one. > > At the beginning of the new region enter > {$REGION 'Name of Region'} > > followed by > {$ENDREGION} > at the region's endpoint. > > What makes you more productive? One of my personal favorites is the "Complete Class at Cursor" (Ctrl+Shift+C) function. This function is context sensitive: If you're in the implementation section of a class, it adds any method headers you've added to the class declaration. If you're in the class declaration, it will create skeleton method bodies in the implementation section. But more importantly (from my perspective) if you create a new property like so: type Myclass = class published property MyProp : aType read FMyProp write SetMyProp; end; And invoke the "Complete Class at Cursor" function, the IDE will add the Member variable, the setter method header, and the setter method body: type Myclass = class private FMyProp: aType; procedure SetMyProp(const Value: aType); published property MyProp : aType read FMyProp write SetMyProp; end; ... implementation procedure Myclass.SetMyProp(const Value: aType); begin FMyProp := Value; end; This action is smart enough to recognize whether the read and write refer to a Member variable or to getter and/or setter methods, or whether it's a read-only property; and behaves accordingly. It even handles array properties. That's some mighty handy code generation when you're deep in class creation. One caveat: if you add method bodies to the implementation section manually, it's worth the effort to keep them in alphabetical order. If you don't it confuses the automatic code generation, and the IDE will simply start appending automatically generated methods at the end of the unit rather than contiguously with the class's other methods. HTH Stephen Posey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
