Nick Hodges

One of the more convenient features of any tool for which you open files – and that is practically every app you might ever run, is the “open recent files” feature, or the MRU (Most Recently Used” feature, or whatever it gets called.  Most of the time you want to work on something that you’ve worked on over the last few times.  This is true for RAD Studio as well, of course,  You may want to open up files or projects that you’ve recently opened.  RAD Studio has had this feature, but it wasn’t configurable  — you had just a fixed number of menu entries.  Well, now with RAD Studio 2010, you can configure an clean up this menu..  On the File|Reopen menu, you can select the “Properties…” menu, and you’ll see this dialog:

Once you have that dialog open, you can set the maximum number of items that you want to appear on the menu.  Be careful, though – put too large of a number and you could end up with a big-ass menu, depending on your screen resolution.  :-)  The other neat thing you can do here is press the “Delete Nonexistent Files” button which will remove files in the list that aren’t found anymore.  (Nonexistent items are listed in gray as shown above….)

This is a small feature, but one that we believe will have a positive effect on your productivity.

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