IDE: Autocomplete for structure-entries

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:12 pm

Hello!

I think it would be a nice feature to have an autocomplete window for structures:

Structure structure_mydata
   example.s
   pureNumber.l
   pureString.s
EndStructure

NewList myList.structure_mydata()

Debug myList()\pur|

The | should represent the cursor. In this exmaple, there should be a popup, listing all items from "structure_mydata".
In my opinion, this is very useful, because otherwise, you must scroll up/down everytime to see which items you've got.

Progi1984 · Post by **Progi1984** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:11 pm

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:25 pm

I don't understand...

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:32 pm

I think he agrees, me too!

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:40 pm

Ah, ok. Thanks!

milan1612 · Post by **milan1612** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:11 pm

Yes, would be a nice feature

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:17 pm

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:15 pm

yes, it would be an important feature.

and also for interfaces when programming in OOP style

Progi1984 · Post by **Progi1984** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:11 pm

I'm agree with Flype !

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Sun May 13, 2007 5:36 pm

No opinion @ PB Team?

Leonhard · Post by **Leonhard** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:47 pm

Post by **freak** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:54 pm

AND51 wrote:No opinion @ PB Team?

Do i really have to comment all your requests now !?

Well, it would be a nice feature for sure, but i don't see it happening any time soon.
The reason is that the IDE does not collect the needed data right now (which variable/list is of which type)
so it cannot display such information. I may add that someday, but not for
now as i have many other projects in line.

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:59 pm

> Do i really have to comment all your requests now
This is a request that is more important than some of my other requests, because there is more appreciation by the other coders in this forum.
If PB-team wants feedback from us regarding bug-hunting and improvements, we want to have feedback from the PB Team, too. Where's the problem?

I don't expect a long description, one or two sentences would be enough.

> I may add that someday [...]
Ah, that's a useful information! Better than saying nothing.

Post by **freak** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:41 am

The problem is time. I do not have enough of it as it is to do all the PB work i want to,
so i do not want to spent my time answering to each and every request.
A search for your name shows 48 topics here, if i were to spend 5 minutes explaining
for each of them why or why not we will implement this, i will have wasted 4 hours of my time.

Besides that, the usual answer is "maybe, but not in the near future" anyway,
since I will not make any promises on stuff that is not certain and usually
do not know myself wether something will someday be added or not.

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:29 am

It's your choice which threads you respond too.
I do fully understand you situation, but please understand mine, too: How should I and others know if the requests are good? If you don't answer, I could think that my request is bad and completely unneccessaryly.
By giving a short respond ("someday..." or even "added to my todo list..") you give the community the feeling, that it did an aid to PureBasic. Without this I could stop submitting improvements and bugs due to insufficient feedback.