On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> The problem I have with those dialog style ways of setting tab order,
> is that they normally only list the component type and name. That
> means you need to be familiar with the dialog and the names of all the
> components.
No you don't ? You select them in the order you want the tabs set,
push the shortcut, press enter, and that's it ?
>
> If you write all your own code, then that might not be a problem. If
> you work on other code you didn't create, as in modifying Lazarus
> dialogs for example, it is a problem. I have even seen some code,
> where developers don't even bother to rename the default component
> names, so you are stuck with Edit1, Edit2, Edit3, etc...
>
> Now what would make those dialog style tab setting really special and
> solve the problem mentioned above, is doing what a Mozilla Firefox
> addon does. I can't remember it's name, but it shows you the DOM tree
> of a web page. You select for example a Table in the DOM tree, and it
> flashes a red rectangle around that Table in the Web Page. That way
> you know what Table or component you are working with.
>
> Just a thought... :-)
Good thought, but this requires more intimate knowledge of the IDE :-)
Michael.
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