Why not to use the Status bar for that ? It also can remain there as long as you inside the method etc..
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. Ido On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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