[dream wish] tree-view for class-list

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MSandro
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[dream wish] tree-view for class-list

Post by MSandro » Sep 22nd, '17, 08:55

When a project grows large, to manage a large amount of classes it would be better to use a tree-structure instead of an normal list to manage the classes.

SimpleSi
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Re: [dream wish] tree-view for class-list

Post by SimpleSi » Sep 22nd, '17, 10:29

Not seeing how a tree structure applies to classes

Have you got a example project that would show the idea?

MSandro
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Re: [dream wish] tree-view for class-list

Post by MSandro » Sep 22nd, '17, 14:39

I mean something like this:
Tree-Structure-VisualStudion.PNG
Instead of:
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To heave more control over your class structure in huge projects, also maybe it can display the scripts/methods in the class to directly jump to this script.

SimpleSi
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Re: [dream wish] tree-view for class-list

Post by SimpleSi » Sep 22nd, '17, 15:07

How would GP know which classes are to be children/parents of other classes?

How do you create/assign a class to be a child of another class?

JohnM
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Re: [dream wish] tree-view for class-list

Post by JohnM » Oct 31st, '17, 17:10

Unlike Free Pascal (the language used by the Lazarus library you mentioned), GP does not have subclasses, so GP classes don't form a natural tree structure.

However, you are right that GP needs a better way to organize classes for larger projects such as the one you are working on, perhaps using some sort of nested folders.

Thanks for sharing this dream/wish.

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