[Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2

[Davide Coppola]

Isn't something like this slower than just pressing F2 when the cursor is
on a function?

I am assuming that the overlay would appear after some delay, because
otherwise moving the mouse around could make the navigation pretty
confusing.

On 14 March 2018 at 07:21, David Schulz <david.schulz at qt.io> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I started working on a similar feature, but never exceeded the state of an
> early concept. The results of this concept weren't promising enough for me
> to keep on working further on this.
>
> If you are interested in participating in the development  of the feature
> I'ld suggest you to open a report for this on bugreports.qt.io and I add
> you to the patch on gerrit as a reviewer, so we can discuss details of the
> implementation and functionality there.
>
> Greetings
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 14-Mar-18 00:14, Jason H wrote:
>
>> After my auto commenting of } comes my next crazy editor idea... Function
>> popups.
>>
>> After hovering or clicking on a function being called in code, a pop-up
>> of the finction's source I appears and can be easily scrolled or closed.
>>
>> As an enhancement, maybe only show the first few lines and the last few
>> lines as those are likely of they most interest.
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