[Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg at opensoft.homeip.net>:

> Hi,
>
> Before I add this as a feature request in Mantis, I thought I would
> discuss the idea first. Maybe others (and not just me) could also see
> the benefit of this.
>
> Currently Lazarus supports various macros in path and filenames[1]. But
> to be able to use it, you need to first go look in the help to see what
> macros are available.
>
> A popular example is [2] below...
>
> Anyway, my thoughts were that maybe we can add a "insert macro" popup
> menu / button next to any EditBox where paths or filenames are entered -
> and where macros can be used. See the attached image, where a product
> named PINs use this idea. Now the user doesn't need to refer to help
> files are try and remember all available macros.
>
> Your thoughts?

Thought 1:

Under Linux and Windows users are used to the right click popup menus  
of edit fields (for clipboard, input methods, special characters and  
accessibility). So maybe there it would be more appropriate to add a  
menu item.
Under OS X a right click popup menu is a bad idea.

Thought 2:

It would be nice to have completion boxes Ctrl+Space for all edit  
fields. They could list all macros and/or all files ....
The problem is that the gtk intf does not yet support non modal on  
modal forms.


Mattias