Re: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

Re: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[dave.banham]

SN 'remembers' the last type of window to close on program (or project?) exit.
The next time you start a SN project, it restores that window. There appear to
be two types of 'symbol' windows. The first is literally the Symbols window that
opens after the creation of a new SN project. The second is the multi-tab window
that provides access to the visualisation and navigation tools such as
Retriever, Xref, Grep, etc.

If you are in the 'navigation' symbol window you can get the 'Symbols' window
back by pressing F4 or from the menu bar as Windows->New Window->Symbols.

I personally find the 'Symbols' window to be of little use because I use the
retriever to look up specific symbol and to show its position in the Editor
window, which I have added as a second pane.

I hope this is of use,
Regards
Dave Banham






Rickard Ericson <rickard.ericson@pricer.se> on 25/09/2000 14:25:28

To:   "Sourcenav (E-mail)" <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
cc:    (bcc: Dave BANHAM/PCS/PCG/TDE/GECALSTHOM)
Subject:  Q: Where is the symbol window ?



Hi !!

Sometimes when I open an existing SN project I get no Symbol Window. The
only way for me to get one seems to be that I open the project from the
beginning, i.e defining paths, directories and files. This is cumbersome an
not at all pleasant.

Is there a fix for this somewhere ? I'm running SN 4.2.2 Developers Edition
and the platform is NT 4.0 sp6

thanks

/Rickard

RE: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[Fabrice Gautier]

> 
> 
> Fabrice,
> The F4 key only works if you don't have num-lock selected! (I 
> think this bug has
> already been reported.)

Thanks ... But I do use the keypad. So ALT-W N S will have to do...
 
> I have used the file list view I have found that filtering it 
> with a file name
> pattern that includes the extension doesn't work. e.g. 
> '*fred.h' I have even
> tried to escape the dot with a slash, but have had no 
> success. So I end up using
> '*fred*' instead.

Yes, I noticed that one too, but I would use *fred .h* in your case.

Regards
-- 
Fabrice Gautier
fabrice_gautier@sdesigns.com 

RE: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[dave.banham]

Fabrice,
The F4 key only works if you don't have num-lock selected! (I think this bug has
already been reported.)

I take your point about using the file list view in the symbol window, but I
very rarely do this because I am not using SN as an IDE tool - I only us it to
find program symbols and their relationships. However, on the odd occasion that
I have used the file list view I have found that filtering it with a file name
pattern that includes the extension doesn't work. e.g. '*fred.h' I have even
tried to escape the dot with a slash, but have had no success. So I end up using
'*fred*' instead.

Regards
Dave Banham



> If you are in the 'navigation' symbol window you can get the
> 'Symbols' window
> back by pressing F4 or from the menu bar as Windows->New
> Window->Symbols.

But F4 doesn't seem to work on the WinNT version.

> I personally find the 'Symbols' window to be of little use
> because I use the
> retriever to look up specific symbol and to show its position
> in the Editor
> window, which I have added as a second pane.

Except the retriever doesn't allow you to search for a specific file.

--
Fabrice Gautier
fabrice_gautier@sdesigns.com

Re: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[Berek]

Make sure you don't have NUMLOCK on. NUMLOCK-Fn (where Fn is any function
key) does not work.
NUMLOCK-Fn generates different key codes then Fn alone and, at the moment,
SN doesn't check these codes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabrice Gautier" <Fabrice_Gautier@sdesigns.com>
To: <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 14:18
Subject: RE: Q: Where is the symbol window ?


>
> > If you are in the 'navigation' symbol window you can get the
> > 'Symbols' window
> > back by pressing F4 or from the menu bar as Windows->New
> > Window->Symbols.
>
> But F4 doesn't seem to work on the WinNT version.
>
> > I personally find the 'Symbols' window to be of little use
> > because I use the
> > retriever to look up specific symbol and to show its position
> > in the Editor
> > window, which I have added as a second pane.
>
> Except the retriever doesn't allow you to search for a specific file.
>
> --
> Fabrice Gautier
> fabrice_gautier@sdesigns.com
>
>

RE: Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[Fabrice Gautier]

 
> If you are in the 'navigation' symbol window you can get the 
> 'Symbols' window
> back by pressing F4 or from the menu bar as Windows->New 
> Window->Symbols.

But F4 doesn't seem to work on the WinNT version.

> I personally find the 'Symbols' window to be of little use 
> because I use the
> retriever to look up specific symbol and to show its position 
> in the Editor
> window, which I have added as a second pane.

Except the retriever doesn't allow you to search for a specific file.

-- 
Fabrice Gautier
fabrice_gautier@sdesigns.com 

Q: Where is the symbol window ?

[Rickard Ericson]

Hi !!

Sometimes when I open an existing SN project I get no Symbol Window. The
only way for me to get one seems to be that I open the project from the
beginning, i.e defining paths, directories and files. This is cumbersome an
not at all pleasant.

Is there a fix for this somewhere ? I'm running SN 4.2.2 Developers Edition
and the platform is NT 4.0 sp6

thanks

/Rickard