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Developer forums (C::B DEVELOPMENT STRICTLY!) => Development => Topic started by: k1mgy on March 09, 2008, 07:25:31 pm
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I speak as a Code::Blocks lover, so this should not be read as whining.
One of the most annoying tasks in my work (Code::Blocks is not unique in this) is to be able to move from point to point in code and get back to where I was.
Example: I'm tracing a problem and my program calls a function, so I right click and Code::Blocks takes me there. But... how to get back? What file was I in? What function? Of course, I can remember this for one level, but try three, four or more levels of this and it's a pain in the ass.
So I propose a WayBack feature, perhaps presented as a tree-view in the manager toolbar. To use WayBack you'd set a "waypoint" marker. Then, as you stray, you set another one, and so on. Waypoint markers might be seen similarly as bookmarks, only they are sequential - or chained together.
The tree view would let me jump back to any previous waypoint, and so on.
I'd also suggest that a hotkey would let you jump back to the previous waypoint, and another to go forward. Successive keypresses would go back or forward a single step at a time.
Perhaps a simple function key would clear all the waypoint markers, and a right-click context or hotkey would let me clear the one I am on.
(The only other thing, and this is a longstanding annoyance, I'd do is put a copy/cut/paste in the right-click context menu. But this is out of the range of my topic!).
Comments?
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Hi !
You should have a look at the BrowseTracker plugin (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,6093.0.html)
Dje
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Comments?
Most likely the "BrowseTracker" plugin is what you are looking for. It takes bookmarks to another level.
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That is the ticket.
The latest stuff is here:
http://code.google.com/p/cbbrowsetracker/downloads/list
Note that I had to pull down the 1-2-68 version and then overlay the 1-2-70 as the 70 did not have the cbplugin file.
Sweet stuff! Thanks.
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That is the ticket.
The latest stuff is here:
http://code.google.com/p/cbbrowsetracker/downloads/list
Note that I had to pull down the 1-2-68 version and then overlay the 1-2-70 as the 70 did not have the cbplugin file.
Sweet stuff! Thanks.
What version of C::B do you use ?
"Browse Tracker" is included in C::B release 8.02 and of course in svn.
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BrowseTracker is part of CB distro !!!
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2.8.7 build 4893
I update using the nightlies.
Is it hiding somewhere in there?