IDE Tip – Project Manager file selection
A new feature introduced in Delphi 2005, automatically synchronised the project managers selection to the current editor file.
Unfortunately, this feature can get a little annoying.
- If you have a large project with many files the constant changing of the project manager position.
- If you use the project manager for navigation the current position continually changes when you change to a new file in the editor.
- It also doesn’t always select the correct file. If you have two files with the same name in two different projects, it will always locate the first file in the project manager. Where it should first look in the active project for the file selected.
The good news is that you can turn this behaviour off.
Rad Studio 2007 (and other 2007 versions)
- Close any IDE instances running
- Start RegEdit
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\5.0\ProjectManager
- Create a new string (or DWord) value called AutoTrack
- Set the value to 0
- Exit RegEdit
- Restart IDE
For 2006 versions replace the 5.0 in the registry key with 4.0
For 2005 versions replace the 5.0 in the registry key with 3.0
To revert to the default behaviour either delete the AutoTrack value or set the data value to 1