Class Completion

[hsvandrew 21]

Is there an option (or plugin) to get class completion to work in a way where all new procedures & functions will appear at the bottom of the unit or in the same order as its declared, rather than in some kind of alpha sorted location?

 

The help topic https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Using_Class_Completion says "If your declarations and implementations are sorted alphabetically, class completion maintains their sorted order. Otherwise, new routines are placed at the end of the implementation section of the unit, and new declarations are placed in private sections at the beginning of the class declaration."

 

But I don't really know what this means in practice and I can't find any logical settings to control the behaviour...

 

Example:

 

TFoo = class(Tobject)

public

//Containers

procedure Zoo;

//Animals

procedure Cat;

procedure Dog;

end;

 

I want the same order to be preserved when creating the implementation.

 

[Achim Kalwa 52]

5 hours ago, hsvandrew said:

Is there an option (or plugin) to get class completion to work in a way where all new procedures & functions will appear at the bottom of the unit or in the same order as its declared, rather than in some kind of alpha sorted location?

Yes, there is "DDevExtension" by Andreas Hausladen. That IDE plugin has an option to disable the alpha-sort class completion (and much more valuable stuff):

 

 

For Delphi 2009...10.4.2 you can download this plugin form Andreas' blog:

https://www.idefixpack.de/

 

For Delphi 11 there is a fork on Github:

https://github.com/DelphiPraxis/DDevExtensions/releases

 

[hsvandrew 21]

Thank you @Achim Kalwa I hadn't installed that part of the excellent work by Andreas Hausladen (I use the other critical bits).

Still amazes me that these key failures never get actually fixed. Even the alpha sort option doesn't actually work properly.