Handbook Note 24/113: Refactor(ing) Menus

October 19, 2007

Handbook Note 24/113: Refactor(ing) Menus

Note 24 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook

This note is a comment about the Refactor pull-down of the main menu of the IDE and the Refactoring submenu of the local menu of the editor, mentioned at page 49.

Note 24: The content of the two menu items is not identical. Even if the same commands are enabled and disabled, depending from the current selection, the text of the context menu of the editor is more specific. For example, by selecting the Form1 symbol in the editor, in the main menu you'll see the caption “Rename”, while the context menu becomes “Rename variable Form1”.

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posted by marcocantu @ 12:09AM | 2 Comments [0 Pending]

2 Comments

Handbook Note 24/113 Refactoring Menus

My guess is that two people were involved in this
Refactoring feature so they did have different ideas
when implementing.

Comment by Li Yang [http://lextm.blogspot.com] on October 19, 12:43

Handbook Note 24/113 Refactoring Menus

 Well, another take to the same idea will be that the
context menu is intended to relate with the
surroundings aka "the context" where the refactoring
is taking place.  The IDE menu is simply the function
itself, from a general perspective.

Comment by Esteban Pacheco [http://blogs.epachsoft.com] on October 19, 18:24

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