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Improvement Suggestion: add minimap or birdview for the code

Peter010
Genius 4165 points

Hello CCS Developer

When I use Pydev in the eclipse, it has minimap to show the position of current view, and also, when I double click the name of module, in the mini map it would highlight the position of my selection. This feature facilitate me to locate the module I would like to use. In the current CCS, I have to use search function to do that.

I hope in the future, CCS can obtain this feature too. The following is the screen shot of Pydev when module name is selected. 

thanks

Xining Yu

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    TI__Guru**** 420650 points

    Hello,

    Thanks for the feedback. One nice thing about CCS being Eclipse based is that there are hundreds (thousands?) of Eclipse plug-ins out there that you can drop into CCS for added functionality:

    I found this on the Eclipse marketplace;

    Which add the functionality you are looking for:

    Thanks

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Genius 4165 points

    Hi Lee

    Thanks for your replying.

    This plugin provides the overview of the code. However, the most important reason of using "overview" or "minimap" is the programmer can see the selected highlighted item in the "overview" too. In my first post, you can see that I have selected the "iqArrary". All the iqArrary had been highlighted in purple color. In the minimap on the right side of eclipse, you can see the position of all the highlighted "iqArrary"  in purple color, even for the off-screen "iqArrary". If I want to go to another off-screen "iqArrary", I may need to click the position of highlighted item on the minimap, and I would go to the lines of code contains "iqArrary". This feature is very convenient for the programmer to locate the highlighted item. However, in the eclipse plugin, it cannot show the highlight the selected item. That is the reason I hope CCS can contain this feature in the future.

    Thanks

    Xining Yu

  • 0 in reply to Peter010
    TI__Guru**** 420650 points
    Hi,
    I just grabbed the first plug-in I found. It could be that another plug-in has the full functionality you need. If I find one, I'll let you know

    ki