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per
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 Posted - Apr 14 2012 : 01:29:12 AM
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| It would be great to have an option to display the list of methods dropdown hierarchically rather than linearly for quick navigation in larger files. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Apr 16 2012 : 12:42:02 PM
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Are you aware that you can set the Alt-M list, list of methods in file, to be either alphabetical, or in the order they occur in the file?
VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Display VA Navigation Bar:
Occurrence / Alphabetical sort of methods in dropdown
http://www.wholetomato.com/products/features/methods.asp
This list is designed to filter and shrink as you type, which will hide any structure we showed. The list also shows the class name and function name for class member functions, so you can filter by class and member function, to help you find the item you want.
Alternatively VA Outline is designed to give you a full hierarchical overview of the current file:
http://www.wholetomato.com/products/features/vaoutline.asp |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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per
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Posted - Apr 16 2012 : 3:13:37 PM
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Hi, thanks for responding. Yes I'm aware of those things. The Alt+M list is far more convenient for quick navigation than VA Outline to the point that I simply haven't used VA Outline in years due to how cumbersome it is.
All I'm saying is that it would be really nice to have some further display options. Even though the menu is filterable, for larger files sometimes it would just be more convenient if you could be offered just the classes first and then get the members after clicking on the class name for instance, either as a submenu, or as a sort of filtering for example maybe have a wildcard for classes only perhaps caret or some other symbol that you can't start a class name with in C++ which would only display class/namespaces and then clicking on one of the classes/namespaces would swap out the filter for that class name that you click on. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 17 2012 : 3:27:17 PM
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If you type the class name, or even just the last part of the class name, followed by dot or :: then the Alt-M list is filtered to only show you this class and its members.
The Alt-M list is designed for quick navigation, while VA Outline is designed for the type of drilling down you are talking about.
Do you often work in a file with multiple classes / namespaces in it? As soon as we try to make the Alt-M list to clever, it stops being quick and simple, and we start to get something more like VA Outline. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Option: Hierarchical List of Methods
