F11 Functionality

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by Stephen Persson >> Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:57:09 GMT

Hi,
I am getting a little annoyed at the F11 functionality with JADE 6 and wondered it someone could straighten me out!

I use F11 a lot, when the cursor is positioned within a line of code to open up one of the methods within a new window. And thats my first issue. Sometimes it does open the method up in a new window, othertimes it just puts the method text in a floating layer thing. How can you control which one you want? There seems to be no pattern (that I can see) as to when it shows the text in a floating text area, or when it opens it up in a new window.
Secondly, when you do quite a few F11s (if you are following a long sequence of code), you can no longer tell where you are up to. In Jade 5.2 it used to have the class name on the method you were looking at, up the top of the window, but that has been removed from Jade 6. Does anyone know of a way to tell what class the method is on that you are looking at?

Thanks
Stephen

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by Dr J. >> Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:21:49 GMT

The F11 behaviour you mention occurs when you already have the method text selected such that the caret is on the left hand end of the selection. If the caret is on the right-hand end of the selection or if you just have the caret in the middle of the method name without having the method selected then it always opens the new window. This has already been faulted and is addressed in the 6.0.18 release.

As regards the caption, this is a known fault with Maximised MDI Child windows. For now I have reverted to having my MDI Child window take up all the MDI Client area without using the Maximise button. Again this has already been faulted and is addressed in the 6.0.18 release.

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by cnwjhp1 >> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 1:05:51 GMT

I tried to make the F11 thing happen using your description, but I can't. I presume when you say caret you mean cursor.

How do you make the MDI child take up the whole area without maximising it? I open about a million MDI children a day, and I'm not about to drag each one of them larger. And the default size seems ridiculously small. And now I notice that when I don't have the child form maximised and hit F11 on a method it maximisies the child form! Is there some way to control this?

Cheers,
John P