what is IDE insight

IDE Insight for easy access to all IDE features, settings and components without searching through menus and dialogs

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Speed is the key – the new IDE Insight

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A paradigm shift is in the works with the new IDE Insight feature found in RAD Studio. This allows developers to quickly find anything in the IDE like from the projects, the components, templates, or configurations settings. By simply pressing the F6 key, the IDE insight is activated, and then the developer starts to type in the desired feature or function they want to perform. A list of possible items is displayed. The developer can then select the feature of function and it will be executed or the IDE will go to that location. IDE insight is available throughout the entire IDE making it on a key-press away at any time.

For the developers who are heavy keyboard users, the IDE Insight can also be started by pressing the CTRL and the ‘.’ keys.

So a quick example of how you could use IDE Insight would be:

1. Start the IDE
2. F6 – IDE Insight
   1. Type ‘vcl forms (pick new application)
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   F6 – type “Tedit1” and hit enter
4. F6 – type “Tlistbox1” and hit enter
5. F6 – type “Button” and hit enter
6. Now align the components on the form
7. Go to code – double clicking on the button
   1. Hit the F6 and show the templates
   2. Cancel – hit the ECS key
8. Put in the line of code
   1. ListBox1->Items->Add(Edit1->Text);
9. Run  on the toolbar