[Gambas-user] Code Origami Mysteries

[Benoît Minisini]

> Well, I'm flabbergasted!  :-)
> 
> I have just discovered the code folding in the gambas 3 IDE.  (Yes, I
> know I'm slow. It comes with age. :-X )

Didn't you ask yourself what all these little arrows are? ;-)

> 
> But two things have got me beat.
> 
> 1.  Is there a keyboard shortcut to collapse/expand the current folding
> region?

CTRL+ENTER and CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

> 
> 2. (A bit more mysterious!)  I use a standard prototype for all my
> classes so I can remember where to find things (age again -  memory span
> is about 5 milliseconds these days).  It looks like this:
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                   EVENT Declarations                    ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                 Property Declarations                   ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                Local Property Variables                 ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                     Local Variables                     ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                    Special Methods                      ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                     Public Methods                      ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                    Private Methods                      ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                      Event Handlers                     ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> '=================================================================
> '====                   Property Accessors                    ====
> '=================================================================
> 
> and here is a picture of a sample class with all regions collapsed
> collapsed

Where ?

> 
> Now, that is absolutely fantatistic!!!!!!
> But.
> 
> Sometimes those header block comments are not shown.  Here's an example,
> caused by including a blank line after the block comment:
> cant see some blocks
> Notice how the "Property Accessors" block comment is no longer visible.
> 
> The mystery to me is:
> 
>          What are the rules that the IDE follows when folding code?
> 
> cheers
> Bruce
> 

Everything between two procedure limits is collapsed. So if your comments are 
AFTER the procedure, they are collapsed with them. But not BEFORE.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini