AutoComplete in the PB Demo Version

[akj]

AutoComplete appears not to work in the PB Demo version. Can anyone please confirm or deny this?

On the Demo splash screen it does not mention this limitation.

I am teaching a PureBasic course starting later this month using the Demo version and it will be a serious encumbrance if AutoComplete is not functioning as it will considerably slow down the progress of all students as they are PB beginners.

If it does work, could someone please tell me a preferences configuration that definitely gets it working.
If it does not work, I would like to request that it be made to function correctly, preferably ASAP.

PB team, please help me with this, especially as I am going to strongly encourage the students to purchase the full PB version from you if they like the Demo version.

[freak]

AutoComplete works fine here with the current demo (just tested).
Its just not configured to pop up automatically. You have to hit Ctrl+Space to get the suggestions. You can configure all this in the preferences.

[akj]

@Freak:

Thanks for your help.
Following your clue of "AutoComplete works fine here with the current demo" I re-downloaded and re-installed it and AutComplete then worked.
The .exe file size was slightly different from one I downloaded in September 2009.

[Marlin]

In case AutoComplete does not work as expected,
my best guess is to look in the preferences (Windowmenu: File/Preferences...).

Just recently, when I was playing around with a beta version of PB-4.40
and then returned to using PB-4.31, AutoComplete suddenly did not
work any more (Linux).

The checkmarks I used to have at Preferences/AutoComplete/Displayed Items,
were gone.
When I checked them again, AutoComplete worked again.

Apparently PB-4.40 has a different method to configure AutoComplete items,
but in the default configuration uses the same configuration file...

(I then made PB-4.40 start with an independent preference file by
using the commandline switch -p <Preferences file>.)