What is this IDE feature called?

[RCrandall 8]

I'm looking at the IDE for 10.4.2 and specifically at the part that is circled in red in the attached screenshot.  Does anyone know what this is called so that I can Google it for troubleshooting?  I've drawn a complete blank!

 

Normally this feature would tell you which method you are currently in, but in 90% of the cases for me it is blank.  This is true in Delphi 11 too.  The one time I went to take a screenshot it worked!

 

For all I know there is a setting somewhere, or some tweak I can make, that will make it work more reliably but I don't even know what to call it to get started searching.  It would be wonderful if it worked reliably.

 

Thanks all, Rob Crandall

[SwiftExpat 65]

I am not sure what the feature is called but for me this got better in  Delphi 11 after I eliminated all of my stray class "markers" down in the implementation section. I had renamed some classes but the old names were still there.

 

Make sure those lines are valid, or something does not parse correctly.

[Attila Kovacs 617]

Navigation Toolbar

[RCrandall 8]

Thanks for the name and the tip!

[David Schwartz 412]

It seems to rely on the same logic that the refactoring uses, and the inline var declarations break both of them.

 

Try looking at a unit with no inline var declarations and see if it looks more useful. It's useless in 10.4.2, along with most Refactoring functions.

[corneliusdavid 142]

Like Attila said. Here's a recent blog of mine about it: https://corneliusconcepts.tech/delphi-productivity-tips-navigation-toolbar

[dummzeuch 1386]

3 hours ago, corneliusdavid said:

Here's a recent blog of mine about it

I knew about these controls, but not about the keyboard shortcuts. And somehow I missed your blog post even thought I am subscribed to the BeginEnd RSS feed. Thanks for mentioning it.

[corneliusdavid 142]

You're welcome.

On 2/15/2022 at 11:16 PM, dummzeuch said:

subscribed to the BeginEnd RSS feed

I didn't even know my blog was listed in there! Cool! 

[dummzeuch 1386]

48 minutes ago, corneliusdavid said:

I didn't even know my blog was listed in there!

Actually it isn't (I just looked), which explains why I missed your blog post.

 

I suggest it for inclusion.

Edited February 18, 2022 by dummzeuch

[corneliusdavid 142]

5 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

Actually it isn't (I just looked), which explains why I missed your blog post.

It's called "Coding in Delphi and Beyond". 

 

I changed it to "Just Another Developer Blog" a few months ago because I didn't want people to think it was connected to the books by Nick Hodges. Last night, I found it listed in "begin end" with the original name so just changed my blog's name back to that. Now I gotta go change my signature line here again.