[Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2

[David Schulz]

Hi,


On 14-Mar-18 12:47, Davide Coppola wrote:
> Isn't something like this slower than just pressing F2 when the cursor 
> is on a function?

I also was thinking about to trigger this, let's name it inline editor, 
via some shortcut and not as a result of a tooltip event. But I guess a 
delayed popup for the mouse user wouldn't hurt either.

Greetings
David
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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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