Does the Clarion IDE support Code Folding Regions?

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Does the Clarion Editor support Code Folding Regions like for example #REGION/#ENDREGION?

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Yes

  !Region  ** Displays when folded **
Xyz EQUATE(1)
  !EndRegion

https://clarion.help/doku.php?id=ide_code_regions.htm

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Amazing! That works! I looked in F1 and didn’t find it for some reason - but thank you @CarlBarnes !

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I recently added REGION as an option in my Clarion XML Comments Tool. They can get verbose, and be distracting, so that way they can be folded to 1 line e.g.

!Region ReplaceBetween() Help ================================================== 
!!! <summary>ReplaceBetween()   fill this in with your help       </summary>
!!! <param name="pLeft"      > 1. STRING pLeft                                            </param>
!!! <param name="pRight"     > 2. STRING pRight  Optional                                 </param>
!!! <param name="pOldValue"  > 3. STRING pOldValue                                        </param>
!!! <param name="pNewValue"  > 4. STRING pNewValue                                        </param>
!!! <param name="pCount"     > 5. LONG   pCount  Default=0                                </param>
!!! <param name="pStart"     > 6. LONG   pStart  Default=1                                </param>
!!! <param name="pEnd"       > 7. LONG   pEnd  Default=0                                  </param>
!!! <param name="pNoCase"    > 8. LONG   pNoCase  Default=0                               </param>
!!! <param name="pReplaceAll"> 9. LONG   pReplaceAll  Default=false                       </param>
!!! <returns>LONG PROC          </returns>
!EndRegion

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Greetings -
They become even more of use when you start doing hand code, classes, equates, system-wide definitions, groups, queues, documentation, etc.
Regards,
Roberto Artigas

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Do the regions work in the Embed Editor?

I’ve just added them in a Clarion 8 project (through Clarion 11 IDE) - and the region does not work - it does not show a fold option.

Does indenting matter?

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Seems it doesn’t work when editing it through an Embed - but does work when using the Source button

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Greetings. Yes, it does work on the source while editing in the IDE.
And while in the source, as far as I can recall, indenting does not seem to matter.
But I tend to do regions on the left margin.

And to answer the next question. Here is where the expand all and contract all buttons are located on a click menu, when you use the mouse and click over the +/-. The purple arrow gets you the drop-down menu, and then you can use the red arrows.

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Hope that helps.

Regards,
Roberto Artigas

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It works in the “Embeditor” - but not the “Embed Editor” (When double clicking an embed to edit)

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Greetings -
I have not tried region/endregion through any of the embeds.
Thank you for the information.
Regards,
Roberto Artigas