[Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2

David Schulz david.schulz at qt.io
Thu Mar 15 10:19:22 CET 2018


Hi,


On 14-Mar-18 18:40, Andy wrote:
> Also thinking out loud since I haven't used such a feature before...
>
> Would it be possible/reasonable/still useful to put the code somewhere 
> other than a popup that obscures the text in the editor? Maybe in a 
> panel on the right (like the docs) or a "console" below?

I would like to stick with the concept of visual studio here. They are 
basically adding a new editor between the current cursor line and the 
line after. This would result in scrolling the content after your cursor 
down the size of the new editor.

greetings
David

>
> I already find that some things that pop up beside the cursor get in 
> the way because they are too long or I'm not even trying to activate 
> it, but the contents can be useful sometimes.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Michael Jackson 
> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net <mailto:mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>> wrote:
>
>     I think this is a good idea. Another feature along the same lines
>     is when you hover over a macro I want to see the fully resolved
>     code even for deeply nested macros. I miss this from Eclipse.
>
>     Just my 2 Cents.
>
>     Mike Jackson
>
>     *From: *Qt-creator
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>     <mailto:bluequartz.net at qt-project.org>> on behalf of Jason H
>     <jhihn at gmx.com <mailto:jhihn at gmx.com>>
>     *Date: *Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 6:40 AM
>     *To: *Davide Coppola <vivaladav at gmail.com
>     <mailto:vivaladav at gmail.com>>
>     *Cc: *<qt-creator at qt-project.org <mailto:qt-creator at qt-project.org>>
>     *Subject: *Re: [Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2
>
>     I think it would be faster, without the abrubt diconnect of
>     switching files.
>
>     Anyway, I'm throwing these ideas out there to see what sticks. If
>     people like them, then I file a report. If people detest them then
>     I don't bother.
>
>     As a refinement to the idea, if there was a documentation string,
>     that would be shown. As a refinement to the refinement, maybe the
>     pipus is an doc strng editor so that you can type one if it
>     doesn't already exist?
>
>     I'm just trying to make development easier and take it to the next
>     level.
>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:47 AM
>     *From:* "Davide Coppola" <vivaladav at gmail.com
>     <mailto:vivaladav at gmail.com>>
>     *To:* qt-creator at qt-project.org <mailto:qt-creator at qt-project.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2
>
>     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<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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