Autocomplete

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:08 pm

It would be nice, if the Autocomplete-dropdown would close when the last letter is typed.

at the moment its sometimes not that convenient to edit lines that include names listed in the autocomplete.

additionally:
autocomplete should only set upper/lower case when the inserted command is complete.

example:
Try to name a Constant "#Sub_Division". when you type "sub",
the autocomplete will complete it to "#SUB" and ignore, that you will type further.
so you'll have to complete the new name, and then re-type the beginning.

I hope, that is not too complicated to solve...

I know, you, Freak, have a lot of work to do and a lot of serious tasks to solve...
but this little correction will optimize the conveniance of using the autocomplete..

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:04 pm

any remark, if you even think about it?

Post by **freak** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:10 pm

I have put it on the 4.1 todo list for the IDE updates.
I cannot give any guarantees though.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:12 pm

ok thnx for reply

Post by **freak** » Tue May 22, 2007 5:25 pm

Done for 4.1

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:57 pm

thnx a lot

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:47 pm

I have also a suggestion:

Imagine you have got a line containing strings like this:

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Debug LCase("My name is "+|name$+" and yours?")

The | should be the cursor.

Sometimes, you have got to insert a string after you've completed the line, so imageine, we want to include Chr(9)+"beep" which does not make sense, but it shows my problem (currently, I have no better exmaple, sry).

When you type " for the first time, auto-complete destroys the upper-/lower-case-writing of the following words:

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Debug LCase("My name is "+Chr(9)+"|name$+" And yours?")

Now, it cnsiders name$+ as string and And yours?") as additional code. As you can see, the word "and" is being interpreted as operator 'And'.

Can you somehow fix this problem? Maybe the IDE can wait until the cursor leaves the line (line break or user clisk "compile")...

PB · Post by PB » Tue May 22, 2007 9:56 pm

@AND51: I don't see how the IDE can prevent this, because it can't read your
mind and know if "And" is going part of a string, or whether it's a keyword.

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:03 pm

Oh... You're right.

Any idea, how I can solve this problem? My workaround: Bringing the rest of the line into a new line to prevent upper-/lower-case destroying. But this is not very comfortable.

PB · Post by PB » Tue May 22, 2007 10:24 pm

Just put a comment mark in front of the string to retain its case, then just
remove it after editing; it saves you moving the string to another line.

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:29 pm

Thanks for this idea!

PB · Post by PB » Wed May 23, 2007 10:27 am

I've been doing it for years.

aaron · Post by **aaron** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:41 pm

How about the IDE not changing the capitalization of words until the cursor moves from that line?

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:51 pm

That's hat I suggested before!

There are 2 situations in which the line must be capitalized:
1.) Cursor moves from that line
2.) EditorGadget looses focus (e. g. when clicking on "Compile/Run")

Post by **freak** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:55 pm

The capitalisation is helpful to indicate that something was typed correctly.
If it is only done when moving from the line, this becomes useless