[Lazarus] Procedure List + CodeTools not showing nested procedures

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:53:58 +0100
Graeme Geldenhuys <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> See the attached screenshots showing a comparative Procedure List result
> for the same unit with the same search term. The one screenshot is of
> Maximus IDE, and the other is from Lazarus IDE.
> 
> Lazarus IDE’s Procedure List uses CodeTools to find and populate the
> ListView, but it doesn’t find any nested procedures or functions.
> 
> eg:
> 
>   TMainForm.SomeMethod;
>   var
>     x,y: integer;
> 
>     procedure LocalProc;
>     begin
>       // some code here
>     end;
> 
>   begin
>     // some code here.
>   end;
> 
> Lazarus’s Procedure List will not find the LocalProc procedure. The code
> to populate the ListView is here…
> 
>   procedure TProcedureListForm.PopulateListview;
> 
> in the <laz>/ide/procedurelist.pas unit.
> 
> Anybody with more CodeTools knowledge than I know what should be changed
> to find such nested procedures or functions?

It iterated with 'NextBrother'. I changed it to 'Next'.

I also changed it to prepend the parent proc names. For example instead
of 'LocalProc' it shows 'TMainForm.SomeMethod.LocalProc'.
If you don't like that feel free to change it.

Mattias