Delphi 2007 Multiple Editors

[Anthony Nasca]

In Delphi 5, when you are in the code editor screen, and you do right click,
new edit window, you get an new editor.pas:x file where x is the number of
the next editor.

How can you do this is Delphi 2007? Currently, when I do this the editor
move to a separate screen but only one instance of the editor is available.

Thanks

[Peter Below (TeamB)]

Post by Anthony Nasca
In Delphi 5, when you are in the code editor screen, and you do right
click, new edit window, you get an new editor.pas:x file where x is
the number of the next editor.
How can you do this is Delphi 2007? Currently, when I do this the
editor move to a separate screen but only one instance of the editor
is available.

In D2007 this only works if you use the fully undocked layout.

[Anthony Nasca]

Where do I make this change?

Thanks

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
In Delphi 5, when you are in the code editor screen, and you do right
click, new edit window, you get an new editor.pas:x file where x is
the number of the next editor.
How can you do this is Delphi 2007? Currently, when I do this the
editor move to a separate screen but only one instance of the editor
is available.

In D2007 this only works if you use the fully undocked layout.
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[Peter Below (TeamB)]

Post by Anthony Nasca
Where do I make this change?
Thanks

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
In Delphi 5, when you are in the code editor screen, and you do
right click, new edit window, you get an new editor.pas:x file
where x is the number of the next editor.
How can you do this is Delphi 2007? Currently, when I do this the
editor move to a separate screen but only one instance of the
editor is available.

In D2007 this only works if you use the fully undocked layout.

It is one of the available standard layouts, you can pick it from the
layout dropdown on the IDEs main menu bar and make it the default
layout with the toolbutton to the right of the dropdown.

[Anthony Nasca]

I took me a while and my programmer had to show me what you meant by IDE's
but we did figure it out.

However, that does not solve the problem.

In D5, you can have multiple screens of code of the same form.

This was very handy because I could have one editor screen looking at Public
variables, one looking at procedure variables and several other all over the
place.

Many times I would have 5 or 6 screen up looking at the same form.code.

Not having this will certainly slow down coding because you have to move
back and forth all the time.

I might find my self actually doing hard coding in D5 and then upgrade to
D2007 for final compile.

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
Where do I make this change?
Thanks

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
In Delphi 5, when you are in the code editor screen, and you do
right click, new edit window, you get an new editor.pas:x file
where x is the number of the next editor.
How can you do this is Delphi 2007? Currently, when I do this the
editor move to a separate screen but only one instance of the
editor is available.

In D2007 this only works if you use the fully undocked layout.

It is one of the available standard layouts, you can pick it from the
layout dropdown on the IDEs main menu bar and make it the default
layout with the toolbutton to the right of the dropdown.
--
Peter Below (TeamB)
Don't be a vampire (http://slash7.com/pages/vampires),
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[Peter Below (TeamB)]

Post by Anthony Nasca
Not having this will certainly slow down coding because you have to
move back and forth all the time.

Well, you can use bookmarks to make that faster at least.

I suppose using multiple editor windows to look at the same source code
file efficiently requires a multi-monitor setup. Otherwise you would
have to permanently switch between editor windows, which would not be
any faster than jumping around the same editor window with bookmarks,
IMO.

[Anthony Nasca]

How do a register a request/complaint to get this feature back.

I'm not sure if you are understanding the problem that this causes not to
have multiple editors of the same code.

I'm currently in Delphi 5 and for one form, I have 4 windows viewing / edit
code in different areas of the .pas file.

One up at the form variables, one at the procedure begin area and another
down in the procedure, etc.

This is a real problem.

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
Not having this will certainly slow down coding because you have to
move back and forth all the time.

Well, you can use bookmarks to make that faster at least.
I suppose using multiple editor windows to look at the same source code
file efficiently requires a multi-monitor setup. Otherwise you would
have to permanently switch between editor windows, which would not be
any faster than jumping around the same editor window with bookmarks,
IMO.
--
Peter Below (TeamB)
Don't be a vampire (http://slash7.com/pages/vampires),
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[Peter Below (TeamB)]

Post by Anthony Nasca
How do a register a request/complaint to get this feature back.

http://qc.codegear.com

Search around a bit (you can do that using Google with
site:qc.codegear.com as additional criterion), you are not the first
missing this feature so there should already be a feature request you
can vote for.

Post by Anthony Nasca
I'm not sure if you are understanding the problem that this causes
not to have multiple editors of the same code.

Oh, i understand that you have become accustomed to doing things a
certain way and feel frustrated that you cannot continue that way
(humans are mostly creatures of habit and resistant to change of any
kind <g>). I have never worked this way since having multiple editors
open next to each other just reduces the available screen area for
each, and I like to see more of the code i'm working on. Using
bookmarks to jump around as needed has always worked fine for me.

Post by Anthony Nasca
One up at the form variables, one at the procedure begin area and
another down in the procedure, etc.
This is a real problem.

Not for everybody, no.

[Anthony Nasca]

Just to confirm, I looking for the ability to have multiple text editors
looking at the same .pas file.

Post by Peter Below (TeamB)

Post by Anthony Nasca
How do a register a request/complaint to get this feature back.

http://qc.codegear.com
Search around a bit (you can do that using Google with
site:qc.codegear.com as additional criterion), you are not the first
missing this feature so there should already be a feature request you
can vote for.

Post by Anthony Nasca
I'm not sure if you are understanding the problem that this causes
not to have multiple editors of the same code.

Oh, i understand that you have become accustomed to doing things a
certain way and feel frustrated that you cannot continue that way
(humans are mostly creatures of habit and resistant to change of any
kind <g>). I have never worked this way since having multiple editors
open next to each other just reduces the available screen area for
each, and I like to see more of the code i'm working on. Using
bookmarks to jump around as needed has always worked fine for me.

Post by Anthony Nasca
One up at the form variables, one at the procedure begin area and
another down in the procedure, etc.
This is a real problem.

Not for everybody, no.
--
Peter Below (TeamB)
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