[Lazarus] Keys attached to IDE functions

Martin lazarus at mfriebe.de
Wed Apr 4 18:10:38 CEST 2012


On 04/04/2012 17:02, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> In the IDE Options the key mappings can be searched (and changed) very 
> convenient. But when I filter for "breakpoint" I only get 3 functions 
> listed. It took me quite a while to find out that the other breakpoint 
> related functions are named "break point" (with a space in the 
> middle). I think that this word should be written in the same way 
> (without space) for all cases.
+1

>
> Yet another issue that stroke me:
> When searching for a key I often don't know how it is actually named. 
> But I know which key invokes it. So I search for the function with 
> "find key combination". That's fine so far. Having read it's name I 
> often want do see other related keys with similar names and do another 
> search by name. But this does not work anymore. I have to exit from 
> the options dialog and reinvoke it to do another search by name. Is 
> that intended? It's a bit annoying.

After searching for a key, the button has that key's name as caption.
Click the button, dialog will say "unknown" confirm > all are shown

Could be more intuitive with a clear button.


>
> And yet another one: When I want to assign a new key and this key is 
> already assigned to another function I get a message telling me 
> whether I still want to assign to this key. If I answer no, the whole 
> assignment dialog is closed. Often I want to try another key but first 
> I have to find my entry (it's not even highlighted anymore!) and 
> double click on it again. This repeats for each unsuccessful try of 
> keys. I am not sure whether this can be changed easily but if yes I 
> (and hopefully others too) would appreciate if someone does.
>
Are you on trunk?

the warning now has 3 buttons. And can return to the assign dialog

> And a last one: What is the difference between "Toggle Breakpoint" and 
> "Toggle view Breakpoints"? The names sound identical but "Toggle view 
> Breakpoints" only shows the list of breakpoints. And it does not 
> toggle anything. Once called it does not close when I use the related 
> key again. Shouldn't this be named "Show Breakpoints" or something 
> like this?

2nd needs to be renamed




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