Collapsing large blocks of code?
lazarus / 9-Editor

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QEnnay · 2021-08-11 17:39

Hello,

Might be asking the impossible here, but I am wrestling hundreds of
lines of code.

Is there a way to collapse large blocks of code in a single Unit/Form?

I have a main-form with a page control and 6-pages, each with hundreds
of lines

Is there a way I can collapse all of the code for each page as I
complete writing it's functionality? I do not want to use "include"
files as that gets cumbersome swapping IDE-tabs.

I know I could include the sub-procedures within "procedure page_1"
and collapse it, but then how do I access those internal procedures
outside of the main procedure?

From this
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i   case
pc_main.ActivePageIndex of    0 : page_1;    1 : page_2;  end; //
Page_1procedure page_1;beginend procedure
page1_stuff_a;beginend; procedure page1_stuff_b;beginend; procedure
page1_stuff_c;beginend; // Page_2procedure page_2;beginend procedure
page2_stuff_a;beginend; procedure page2_stuff_b;beginend; procedure
page2_stuff_c;beginend;  
To this
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i   case
pc_main.ActivePageIndex of    0 : page_1;    1 : page_2;  end; // Page
1--collapsed // Page 2--collapsed

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engkin · 2021-08-11 17:49

Are you familiar with {%region}?
If not, check this link

{%region /fold}:
Quoteif you want the fold to start out collapsed on first loading the
file.

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engkin · 2021-08-11 17:55

Also, you might want to know about {$ModeSwitch nestedprocvars}

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QEnnay · 2021-08-11 19:09

Quote from: engkin on August 11, 2021, 07:49:22 pmAre you familiar
with {%region}?

Nope, I was not, but thanks, that looks exactly what I am after.

I had done quite bit of searching before asking here, but did not
think  of using "Fold."

ETA: Thanks that's perfect

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QEnnay · 2021-08-11 19:13

Quote from: engkin on August 11, 2021, 07:55:30 pmAlso, you might want
to know about {$ModeSwitch nestedprocvars}

Interesting, but as mentioned I will give the "Region" thing a try.