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Uh.. how to say this o.O ^^
My wish to the IDE is, that I can add custom commands that are shown in the statusbar with their arguments. for example if I have a custom library like the irrlicht wrapper, and I write
irraddstatictext(
then in the statusbar should appear "irraddstatictext ( text.s , x.i , y.i , width.i , height.i , font.irrfont) "
(maybe loaded from a custom textfile)
or even add some more japbe features. would be great, I guess ^^

good idea?

greetings max

I definitely agree.
Allow context help to span included files and external libraries.
Or, allow user to manually edit the underlying database.

> Allow context help to span included files and external libraries.

Just create a project and add the include files and it will work.

And I thought I had read enough of the manual?

Thanks Freak!

Hi Freak,
I do see the context help now with a project, but only when the include files are loaded in the IDE.
Will that always be the case?

Also, can the context help also show the procedure's return type, if it actually does or not?

Instead of this...
MyFun(x.d, y.d)

Do this...
MyFun.d(x.d, y.d)

and what if there is only a pure-library and no include-file? then you can't include anything..

> I do see the context help now with a project, but only when the include files are loaded in the IDE.

If you enable the "Scan file for Autocomplete" option for the files in the project settings then you do not need to have the files open.

> Also, can the context help also show the procedure's return type, if it actually does or not?

Nope.

> and what if there is only a pure-library and no include-file? then you can't include anything..

Then the statusbar help is read directly from the library anyway.

Thanks Freak,
That works.
I'll keep the return type on my features Ping list.