<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>David Brennan <dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Better still it should be done by registration. So you could use Borlands<BR>registered prefixes or you could register your own prefixes for the various<BR>components in your own design time package. <BR><BR>However Delphi still needs to come up with unique names so you would get<BR>btn1, btn2, etc. <BR><BR>David.<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] On<BR>Behalf Of John Bird<BR>Sent: Monday, 27 June 2005 2:34 p.m.<BR>To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<BR>Subject: RE: [DUG] Delphi 2005 IDE and naming conventions.<BR><BR>I have always wondered why Delphi doesn't provide an option somewhere in the<BR>IDE to rename default variable names...<BR>When I drop a component on the page the first thig I do is rename it<BR>according to what most people recommend...<BR><BR>Eg<BR>button1 to btnStart etc<BR>Label1
to lblHeader<BR>Editbox1 to edtCode<BR>Stringgrid1 to strgrdCodes etc<BR><BR>Its mainly handy to remember what a type of component is called, I always<BR>know a button will start with btn etc, so in the middle of coding I have to<BR>think less. And the word button at the beginning is simply too verbose.<BR><BR>It would be cool if there were an option somewhere in the IDE I could tick<BR>and it would always do this naming convention.<BR><BR>John B<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] On<BR>Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss<BR>Sent: Monday, 27 June 2005 11:02 a.m.<BR>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<BR>Subject: [DUG] Delphi 2005 IDE and naming conventions.<BR><BR><BR>We are revisiting our naming conventions and I have read a few of the <BR>previous posts on the subject, along with suggested articles, and I have <BR>a question about the latest IDE for Delphi (we still use Delphi 6 but <BR>will
probably upgrade with the next release... if it is stable). After using<BR>Eclipse with Java for a little while now, one of the things <BR>I really appreciate in that IDE is that any documentation for a field <BR>etc appears in it's hint when the mouse is held over it. Having that <BR>feature makes some aspects of naming conventions less important I think.<BR><BR>My question is, does the latest Delphi IDE also have this feature? Where <BR>the code-insight hint that shows for something includes any <BR>documentation for that item? If it does then that will probably affect <BR>any changes we make to our naming conventions.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Phil.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Delphi mailing list<BR>Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Delphi mailing
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