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Shambler
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 Posted - Apr 16 2014 : 3:46:48 PM
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Small request, but would be really great if it could be done - VS2013 has a great new map scrollbar, but the tooltips it shows are really small:
Options->Text Editor->All Languages->Scroll Bars->Behaviour->Use Map mode for vertical scroll bar->Show Preview Tooltip
It would be great to be able to set the size of that tooltip, to be (vertically) much larger (though being able to customize horizontal size might be useful as well). |
Edited by - Shambler on Apr 16 2014 3:51:53 PM |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 16 2014 : 7:43:12 PM
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What are you after achieving here? Are you using the tooltip to try and locate a specific part of the file?
If you are looking for a given function, then you may find the Alt-M list or VA Outline more useful, and quicker to use:
For VA Outline, which shows you an overview of the current file:
http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W187
For the Alt-M list, which shows you a searchable list of the methods in the current file:
http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W192 |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Shambler
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Posted - Apr 16 2014 : 10:11:50 PM
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Not to locate a specific part of the file, but to read from any part of the file while keeping the caret/main-window at the current position - even hovering over a bit of code I want to reference, while typing at the caret location without the tooltip disappearing (potentially really handy).
So, while the VA Outline and method list are really useful for their own purpose, the scroolbar preview tooltip is a very handy way of looking at multiple places in the current file (even writing in one place while looking at another), seamlessly.
It has the potential to be an extremely nice and productivity-enhancing feature (if the tooltip could be made bigger) - almost as handy as (if not more so than) multiple monitors. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 17 2014 : 10:33:07 AM
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Are you familiar with the IDE menu command:
IDE Window menu -> Split
this allows you two views of the same file at the same time, in the same tab. You can then navigate one view to the code you are interested in reading, while keeping the second view on the code that you are editing. Since you can resize the split, you can make this roaming view what ever size you need it to be, to study the other code in the file. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Shambler
Senior Member
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Posted - Apr 17 2014 : 12:49:44 PM
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| Thanks - that's a pretty useful feature alright (still getting used to the new IDE features :)); the tooltip has particular potential to be useful in addition to all of this, but no worries, plenty of other similar features. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19003 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2014 : 10:21:56 PM
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Since the IDE does not provide any way to resize the tooltip, to resize it via VA we could end up having to duplicate this feature with our own resizable tooltip, which seems wasteful, especially when there are other options available to get similar, or even the same information. Hopefully the split window will help you here.
If you are working with multiple monitors, or a large monitor, you can even go a step further and use:
Window menu -> New Window
which will give you a second tab showing the same file, so you can have two full height views into the same file at the same time. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Shambler
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Posted - Apr 18 2014 : 06:40:38 AM
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| Ah thought there might be a catch like that - a pity the code for that feature is out of reach; thanks for the replies :) |
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Resize scrollbar preview tooltip
