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Re: Ultimate book questions [message #29628 is a reply to message #29621]

Thu, 04 November 2010 20:21

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dolik.rce

Having help in separate window might be nice feature, but I personally would not use it much, simply because I don't need to.

Yep, but you're more of a developer than a user. For beginners, finding information is a challenge. If U++ is intentionally beginner unfriendly that's ok but I'm going to investigate whether I can create a proper help facility. There seems to be enough people willing to fill in content if they knew where to fill it in.

dolik.rce

BTW: For 1) I often use Alt+J to get to the definition of whatever I need to see reference and point the mouse on the green square which shows the reference as tooltip, and then just Alt-Left arrow to get back to wherever I was before. That is IMHO the fastest way to use the reference Wink

Yep, I use SlickEdit and goto definition and pop back is one of its top features. In U++, pop back doesn't work if you're in a layout file and not in text mode. I have an idea the goto / pop back mechanism could be improved in U++ - or at least document the Alt-Left arrow key in the help or keyboard shortcuts dialog, if not already. SlickEdit tends to "push bookmarks" automatically a lot and it has a bookmark stack viewer and a pop-all-bookmarks command and you can also push a bookmark on demand. Unfortunately, the heavy use of macros in U++ tends to defeat SlickEdit's goto definition sometimes.

Graeme

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