Hyperlink Navigation

[mike]

This is how I usually use Hyperlink Navigation.
1) Right click the link and the package body shows up.
2) Often, I also want to see the comments for the function in the spec, so I close the package body, go to the recent objects, open up both the package and body and then look at the comments in the specification.

It would be super nice if I right clicked the hyperlink and both the spec and body opened, but the cursor was put on the function of the body. But it doesn't.

If any of you have a tip on how to better use the hyperlink to see both spec and body, I would appreciate it!

Thanks!

 

[Marco Kalter]

If you right-click you will go to the package body. If you left-click you will go to the package specification. So there should not be any need to navigate to the recent objects folder, because you can always get there from the hyperlink navigation source.

We'll consider an option to open both the body and specification.

 

[William Robertson]

It might also be good if control-click on a package body procedure or function navigated to the corresponding declaration in the package spec, although I appreciate you get the signature from a mouse-hover so arguably there is no need to navigate unless you want to see comments or related global variables etc. Currently if you view only the package body and then change your mind and want to see both, there is no simple way to do it.

Also there is nothing to tell you which package items are public, other than right-clicking and looking for a 'Test' option.

 

[mike]

Thanks. I guess I just need to stop being picky about the spec and body being together on the same tab. When looking through several packages, it starts to get messy though.

I like William's idea to somehow easily see what's public. I make my public procedures upper case and private procedures lower case to differentiate, but most others do not.