Hi, does anyone knows if the editor has those arrows (light blue if i remember correctly) that has Delphi to let you go back and forth to editing points?.

Example: ctrl+click on a unit name, then ctrl + click on a method and so on. The left arrow in delphi allows you to go back to the last editting point before the Ctrl+click.

If Lazarus's editor doesn't have this feature it could be nice to add it.

It doesn't have the 2 buttons (as you ay have seen), but it has alternate ways to provide the functionality.

1) by keyboard: (you can assign all key-commands to your own preferred keys):

alt-cursor up : jump to declaration
ctrl - h : jump back
ctrl-shift- h: jump forward

2) by mouse
ctrl-click to jump to declaration

4th and 5th mouse button to jump forward/backward
(if you want to change this, let me know what you want to change it to, it's possible, but tricky => see advanced mouse setting, help on wiki)

Martin

Hi, does anyone knows if the editor has those arrows (light blue if i remember correctly) that has Delphi to let you go back and forth to editing points?.

No.

Example: ctrl+click on a unit name, then ctrl + click on a method and so on. The left arrow in delphi allows you to go back to the last editting point before the Ctrl+click.

Ctrl+h jumps back, Ctrl+Shift+h jump forwards.

If Lazarus's editor doesn't have this feature it could be nice to add it.

Feel free to provide a patch to provide such buttons.

Mattias

It depends on the available space in the GUI. I've placed such arrows into the status bar, just below the gutter.

The navigation keyboard shortcuts are Alt-Left/Right in Delphi, Ctrl-H and Ctrl-Shift-H in Lazarus. Dunno why, perhaps some platforms don't like Alt shortcuts?

DoDi

2010/5/1 Leonardo M. :

If Lazarus's editor doesn't have this feature it could be nice to add it.

Lazarus doesn't have it, but it is still possible with "Editor Toolbar" (included with Lazarus) package. Editor toolbar allows you to add most of the IDE menu items into the toolbar. With this simply add Jump Back/Forward menu items to the editor toolbar. See attached image for how my IDE looks.

I guess it was unknown that delphi had those shortcuts. At least I didnt', found out today.
Thank you, it was one of those things I missed in delphi (or was it introduced in D7 ?)

Marc

El dom, 02-05-2010 a las 10:31 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys escribi?:

Thanks to all of you, I didn't know the shortcuts. After Hans mentioned them, I found them in the Search menu, then adding to the Editor Toolbar was easy.

How do you get it to work? What spell or incantation is necessary? :-)

I've tried to use it several times and all it does it put buttons on the status bar with a lightning icon that do nothing when pressed. Lazarus 0.9.29 rev 23574.

See attached.

2010/5/2 Lee Jenkins :

How do you get it to work? ?What spell or incantation is necessary? :-)

* Compile the editortoolbar.lpk (found in components/editortoolbar/)
* By default it comes with a "configure" button and a hard-coded "jump to" navigation button.
* Click configure and browse the "IDEMainMenu" tree node. Most menu actions seem to work, but there are a few that doesn't - no idea why yet.

As a test, try and add something that is known to work,
- IDEMainMenu > Edit > itmEditClipboard > Copy | Paste | Cut
- IDEMainMenu > Run > itmRunBuilding > Run | Build | Build All
- IDEMainMenu > Search > Jumpings > Jump Back | Jump Forward etc..

If a item appears with a lightning bolt icon, it means the IDE menu item did not have an icon, so the editor toolbar adds a generic icon (so it's visible to the end-user).

I still need to investigate why some IDE actions do not work. For example, creating shortcuts to the various Debug windows (Watch window, Backtrace etc) don't work from the editor toolbar.

I've tried to use it several times and all it does it put buttons on the status bar with a lightning icon that do nothing when pressed.

What IDE actions (exact tree shown in Configure Editor Toolbar dialog) did you try and add, that doesn't work?

Me2

Thank you, it was one of those things I missed in delphi (or was it introduced in D7 ?)

Maybe we should change the defaults shortcuts in Lazarus?

Mattias

No, I like ctrl-h. And this was the default in Delphi also but since VS used alt-arrow they changed it to that.

And ctrl-h (Lazarus) and alt-arrow (Delphi) are not completely the same. Lazarus'version is better. It always works, for every jump the cursos makes. In Delphi it only works in some cases.

Joost.