improving context browser for declarations in file

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday, 10. September 2010 19:21:17 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Friday, 10. September 2010 18:34:56 David Nolden wrote:
> > Yes, i also already though about improving this. Your idea is good. Also
> > namespace- or class-scopes shouldn't be shown again and again, and we
> > coulf abbreviate functions by parens, for variables we could shorten the
> > prefix to just "var", etc. It could look like extremely simplified code.
> 
> I've made sure the decls are unique
> (decl->kind & decl->qualifiedIdentifier().index pair).
> 
> But I'm not sure about the rest. If I merge the kind, it looks strange:
> 
> Function foo, bar, asdf, Namespace yxcv, qwer, Function öouir
> 
> If I add () behind functions it beomces better, but still:
> 
> Function foo(), bar(), asdf(), Namespace yxcv, qwer, Function öouir()
> 
> it should be Function_s_, Namespace_s_... but declarationKind() does not
> give that info of course. But we should use declarationKind to stay
> language independent, shouldn't we? This also prevents using "var" instead
> of Variable...

Thinking a bit more about it, I'd personally find it more useful to display 
something like we currently show in document outline. I.e. don't show 
namespaces at all, and then just a list (one item per line) of declaration-
>toString() or similar, i.e. with function parameters and everything.

This is not neccessarily less output than now, but much easier to grasp and 
navigate.

Bye

> > Am 10.09.2010 17:42 schrieb "Milian Wolff" <mail at milianw.de>:
> > 
> > Hey there,
> > 
> > a user (blender dev) showed me this screenshot with the plea to improve
> > it: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=5666
> > 
> > I hope we all agree that this is completely bad. His idea  where the
> > "all, all
> > funcs, used funcs, ..." buttons to the left which are nice but imo hard
> > to implement with the current api (or am I mistaken?).
> > 
> > For starters I thought about at least grouping the declarations by kind.
> > Imo it would be better, but right now the declarations are listed in the
> > order they are declared which is probably also helpful. So maybe we could
> > at least merge consecutive declarations of the same kind?
> > 
> > Like so:
> > 
> > Typedef foo, Typedef bar, Function abc, Function asdf, Class foo
> > 
> > =>
> > 
> > Typedefs foo, bar, Functions abc, asdf, Class foo
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > --
> > Milian Wolff
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> > http://milianw.de
> > 
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