[Lazarus] Feature Request: a new macro for a complete identifier name

[Sven Barth]

Am 17.02.2012 08:32, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi,
>
> Based on the discussion about offline help viewers, and interesting
> point was raised. In the case of DocView (which is setup via the
> External Tools), I use the ${CurToken} macro to allow docview to do a
> search - based on where the cursor is positioned.
>
> Now somebody brought up a interesting commend. If the cursor was over
> an identifier "Visible", to which class does that related. Docview
> does display the search result in a easy manner, so it shouldn't be
> too hard to use as-is, but it can be improved.
>
> If I put the mouse cursor over "Visible", it will show me something like
>
>     property TButton.Visible
>
> So can somebody that knows how, implement a new ${CurIdentifier} macro
> which can be used in the External Tools entries. So when I press F1
> while the cursor is on "Visible", it will actually pass
> "TButton.Visible" or "TCombobox.Visible" etc to docview.
>
> Lazarus IDE has all the information because the tooltips display all
> than information, so for somebody that is in the know, they should
> find it easy to implement such a new macro, by using similar code as
> is used in the tooltips. I presume it uses CodeTools.
>
> I don't believe it is needed to add (like in fpdoc) the package and
> unit name to this identifier (eg: #lcl.buttons.TBitBtn.Visible), but
> if the person that (maybe) implements this feature request thinks it
> could be useful, then another separate macro should be added for that.
>
>
>

Maybe you should report this on the bug tracker?

Regards,
Sven