#region Blocks

[rackley]

One of the best best things about Visual Studio 2003 is the ability to use region blocks to collapse code. For those who don't develop in the computer arena as well, it works like this:

.. Code 1 ...
#region MyRegion
.. Code 2 ...
#endregion
.. Code 3 ...

Clicking on a little "-" next to the #region header collapses the region and all code in it to a single

"MyRegion"

line in light grey text. Clicking on the now "+" icon next to it expands it again. This is IMMENSELY helpful when writing programs of any real length as it allows you to collapse arbitrary blocks of code into single lines. For example, you can have all your init code and put region markers around it and collapse it. You can collapse subroutines/functions, multiple subsroutines/functions, or parts of subroutines/functions.

It's hard to express how wonderful this feature is until you've got a program that's 500+ lines and start to use it.

You may have to call it something other than a region or implement it somewhat differently to avoid the IP stuff, but chalk this one up on the wish list please!

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[rackley]

Whoops, meant to post this in the "Mecanique - IDE" forum.

[Maverick]

I remember this from an AMIGA language called AMOS which was the same thing, you could collapse functions to a single line, it is a pretty nifty feature but i`m not sure how well it would translate to proton

[rackley]

I think it would work quite well if you could mark and collapse user-defined blocks of code. Collapsing SUBs wouldn't be as ideal though.

[johngb]

I use Include files to make the code more manageable but this would be a very useful additional function.

JohnB

[Mark Rodgers]

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I am sure this is of help in the help of the help file regionaly.