Questions: code navigation, -search, -highlighting

[ZerMahlMeer]

Hello,

1. When using 'Ctrl + I' to go to a definition, is there a handy way / shortcut to go back? It jumps around in a file, opens another file and I want to go to the caller of the particular variable / function.
2. Is there a history of search results? I use the search quite often but sometimes I want to search withing a block of code that I found in the current search. When I do that, the current search results disappear.
3. Are there Add-ins for CVI that allow some better code highlighting? E.g. different colors for datatypes, macros, functions, passing parameters, globals, pointers etc, or if a variable is selected and all usages of this variable are highlighted withing the current block. At least in Visual Studio this improves the readability greatly.

Thanks!

[ZerMahlMeer]

Oh wow. I just discovered Options -> Colors -> unselect "Use System Colors". I can make the code so much more readable with that: dark background, strings colored, numbers colored etc.

Question no. 3 is (almost) answered with that.

[RobertoBozzolo]

Some of the features you are looking for are offered by the Source Code Browser facility: when on a variable, macro, function definition press Ctrl+F1 and the SCB will open showing you some references as in the picture below. When called on a function, it offers the list of callers and calees.

The window can be undocked, and (as highlighted in the lower right) the most recent searches can be reviewed.

Additionally, if "Go to definition" jumps to a different file, pressing Ctrl+Tab jumps to the most recent window opened. This is always valid: if you click on a panel or control name and press Ctrl+Shift+U to jump in the UIR editor where that particulat panel or control is, with Ctrl+Tab you go back to the source file you were. Quite handy.

[ZerMahlMeer]

Thanks! That definately helps. It is good to (slowly) learn all the little tweaks of CVI.

[Constantin--P · Accepted solution]

Hello,

1. To navigate back after Go to Definition, or Go to Next Reference you can use Ctrl+G(Go Back)

2. The previous search results are not preserved after a new search. The only history CVI keeps is the search expression in Find dialog.

Regards,

Constantin