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Report #: 11093

Status: Closed

"Interface" category does double duty

Project: Delphi

Build #: 9.0.1761.24408

Version: 9.0

Submitted By: Rob Kennedy

Report Type: Suggestion / Enhancement Request

Date Reported: 2/25/2005 12:40:01 PM

Severity: Infrequently encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 220721

Resolution: Retest (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 7.0.4.453

Duplicate of: None

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Description

In the Code Explorer (Structure view), the "interface" category searves two purposes. First, it controls whether interface-type declarations appear as top-level nodes or grouped into a separate Interfaces category. Second, it controls whether the interfaces that a class is declared as implementing appear as first-level nodes of the class node or grouped into a separate category.

There should be two separate options for those. While I like to see all the interface types as top-level nodes with the classes, I don't need to see the list of implemented interfaces for each class. (When the implemented interfaces aren't in their own group, the class node is automatically expanded, which is a side effect I don't want.)

The Code Explorer should have two interface categories: One for interface types declared in the unit, and one for interfaces implemented by the classes in the unit.

Steps to Reproduce:

If you have an interface (ITest) declared in a unit and a class (TImpl) in that unit that implements that interface, the tree view will look like this if you have the "Interfaces" category checked in your Code Explorer options:

+ Interfaces
+ TImpl

If the category is not checked, the tree will look like this:

+ ITest
- TImpl
  |  ITest
  | + Fields
  | + Methods

I would prefer that Delphi offer some combination of settings to allow a tree like this:

+ ITest
+ TImpl

That is, both interface and class declarations appear as first-level nodes in the tree, but neither of them is automatically expanded.

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