[PyKDE] eric3, qscintilla and code folding

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Mon Jun 26 09:53:46 BST 2006


On Wednesday 12 October 2005 6:44 am, Brad Ralph wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have one small problem that is continually driving me crazy.
>
> When I create classes, I often want to fold all of the methods of the class
> (if there are a lot of them, to make it easier to navigate.  No problem i
> think ... just select 'toggle all folds' in the menu and then expand the
> class fold.  but I'd be wrong.  It seems that if a fold is collapsed then
> the toggle function does not look inside that block and since the class
> fold is the first in the file 'toggle all folds' only colapses the class. 
> when I open it again, all of the methods are still expanded.
>
> I had a peek around the eric3 code, but all the magic seems to be done in
> QScintilla.
>
> My question therefore is:
>
> Is it possible to toggle all of the code folds at the same time or is it a
> 'feature' of QScintilla and I just have to live with it the way it is?

I've changed QextScintilla::foldAll() to take an optional argument that causes 
the fold/unfold to be applied to all child fold points as well.

Phil




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