IDE Window: Divider Drawing: what changed
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Title: IDE Window: Divider Drawing
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| 1 | + | ## Navigation | |
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| 3 | + | You can reach this dialog from the Lazarus IDE: | |
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| 5 | + | - [[Main menu|Main Menu]] \> [[Main menu|Tools]] \> [[IDE Window: IDE Options Dialog|Options]] \> [[IDE Window: Editor Options|Editor]] \> Divider drawing | |
| 6 | + | - Source Editor popup context menu \> Options... \> Editor \> Divider drawing. | |
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| 8 | + | ## Divider Drawing | |
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| 10 | + | The source editor draws horizontal dividers between blocks off code helping the programmer to quickly see where a block starts and ends. What a block is can be defined in detail for each language and block type. | |
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| 12 | + | To see see how the editor look with divider drawing enabled, have a look [[New IDE features since|here]]. | |
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| 14 | + | Divider lines can be configured on a detailed level.\ | |
| 15 | + | For example you can choose to have a divider after every top-level procedure/function. (set the level to 1) Or you can include nested functions up to a desired level. (level \>= 2) | |
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| 17 | + | You can have dividers after the following logical breaks | |
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| 19 | + | - Unit Sections: implementation, interface, initialization, ... | |
| 20 | + | - Uses Clause: In case it gets multi line | |
| 21 | + | - Var/Type: any var/type/const block on top-level (not in a procedure) | |
| 22 | + | - Var/Type(local): any var/type/const inside a procedure | |
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| 25 | + | The nest level indicates how deeply the *procedure* is nested (as var blocks can not nest themselves) | |
| 26 | + | - Class/Struct: Class/Record or Object declarations. The nest level is for records defined inside a class. | |
| 27 | + | - Class/Struct(local): same if used inside a type declaration local to a procedure | |
| 28 | + | - Procedure/Function: | |
| 29 | + | - Begin/End: Includes Case/Repeat, but not try/except. The nesting is counted to the containing Procedure | |
| 30 | + | - Try/Except: | |
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| 32 | + | Note: | |
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| 34 | + | - unfinished blocks (open begin with no end) can fool the highlighter. | |
| 35 | + | - blocks that finish on the same line, on which the opened are ignored | |
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| 37 | + | --- | |
| 38 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Divider Drawing", as it stood on 2021-02-15 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |