[Lazarus] Editor toolbar changes ?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Aug 4 14:44:19 CEST 2015



On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Juha Manninen wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Double-click 'jump to' under 'Code explorer' ?
>> Maybe this is another "jump to" ?
>
> Right, yes. That one is quite useless in a toolbar. I don't know how
> to filter out the useless commands.
> Another related issue are the IDE commands without a  menu entry. You
> can configure key combinations for them but you cannot add them to a
> toolbar. The Lazarus command system is a little messy.
>
>
>> It's in fact almost the only button I care about, because I use it most of
>> all, besides the backward/forward in history.
>
> Personal preferences differ. I did not realize it was so crucial for somebody.

Well, that's why we have a mailing list :-)

> I thought only Graeme uses it. :)

Clearly not, obviously he was right about the importance of this button to treat it specially ;)

(BTW: It's one of the first buttons of "GExperts" which I add to the toolbar in Delphi... 
Just to give you an idea...)

> However it may be easier to fix than I first though. The Search menu
> already has a menu section for the Jump ... commands. The
> configuration window can be made to accept a menu section, too. Then
> the sub-items would show in a dropdown list.

That seems like the most easy approach, yes.

> Now I have summer activities but I will look at this a little later.
> Patches are welcome, too.

Take your time, I am glad you see a solution and are willing to work on it.

Please don't forget to notify when you implement it :)

Michael.




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