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Sharp File Swap

Free expert with source code for easy & fast keyboard switching between files in a project for Delphi 7, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007

• Feature overview
• What's new
• Screenshots

Feature overview

This is an expert focused on a faster navigation between open units on the IDE. I made it because I found I spend too much time searching for the unit I was working some minutes ago.

Tabs get inefficient as soon as you have more than 10 tabs opened. The project manager is better, but it can take you some time to find your file when you have hundreds of them. And both methods make you use the mouse, which is good some times, but not so much others.

The observation that 'inspired' this expert is that you are normally working on the 3-4 last files you accessed. So, this gives you a very fast way to switch between them. Just press Alt-Ctrl-Tab, keep pressing Tab without releasing Alt-Ctrl, and you can select the icon of the file you want to work with. It behaves similar to Alt-Tab on windows, it does not just switch between tabs (like ctrl-tab, or Alt-Tab on win3.1), it shows the icons of the files and lets you choose the one you want. Icons are different for different file types, and files from other projects are shown on black and white.

Bookmars are supported too. You can press '1' to '5' while not releasing Alt-Ctrl, and later you can access that file (even if it is not opened) by pressing Alt-1...Alt-5 Bookmarks are persistent when you close the IDE, so you can use them to mark very used units.

An example of use:

• 1) You are working on a file, and for the method you are writing, you have to declare a const on a global definitions file called "Consts.cs". If you have bookmarked Consts.cs on position 5, you can press "Alt-5" to go to it, write the declaration, and press Alt-Ctrl-Tab to go back and continue working. This is all automatic, you don't have to think or search for the files, and you don't have to leave your hands from the keyboard.
• 2) When you app raises an exception and the debugger opens another file, this is the fastest way to come back to where you were.

What's new

v1.2

• New: Delphi 2007 support

v1.1

• Improved : icon support

Screenshots