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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
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 Posted - Mar 02 2004 : 3:21:42 PM
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On most items a tips window pops up telling all about whatever it is you are hovering over. I have some things defined as enums in an included header file and this function only sometimes works for them, mostly not working.
I'm using build 1218 with VC6
Thanks for looking into this.
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Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Mar 02 2004 : 6:38:40 PM
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We can believe you get no hovering tooltips in some cases but without more info, we have no way to debug the problem or suggest a workaround.
Try to figure out what is different about the enums that work versus those that fail. Something might be confusing the VA X parser. Use of preprocessor macros is the common culprit. |
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Mar 03 2004 : 10:57:26 AM
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I don't know of any enums that work consistantly nor do I know of any that never work.
What kind of info do you need? |
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2004 : 12:38:19 PM
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It seems that the problem is related to the font I am using. I switched to Verdana and to VA X at about the same time. I have switched back to fixedSys font and the tooltips work as expected and dont discriminate against enums. In fact, the tooltips didn't work very well on anything with the Verdana font. I don't know if they fail on any variable width font or not.
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Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Mar 03 2004 : 2:58:55 PM
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Can you change the setting for "Use Default Intellisense..." on the "Text Editor|C/C++" node of our options dialog? Tell us if it makes a difference.
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - Mar 03 2004 : 3:48:30 PM
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I tried it all 4 ways and the "Use Default Intellisense..." seems to have no effect. It seems to be totally dependant on using FixedSys or Verdana. Do you want me to try a different variable width font?
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Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Mar 03 2004 : 7:30:58 PM
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| Go for it. We're swamped. We'd love the help isolating the culprit. |
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2004 : 09:37:49 AM
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I have tried several fixed width fonts and several variable width fonts and the problem is not there with fixed width fonts and is there with every variable width font I have tried.
With variable width fonts, the tool tips, when they show at all, usually are for something a word or two to the right of where the cursor is.
How many developers do you have?
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2004 : 1:22:09 PM
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Stephen,
I tried the link to thread #1247 and got a message that I don't have access to the forum.
I do remember seeing a thread where someone had a problem with Verdana font and the question was asked about why you needed to line up your code in the first place. That was when I tried Verdana and really liked it, but then this problem came up. Is that the thread you are talking about?
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
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Posted - Mar 04 2004 : 2:17:20 PM
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't notice it was in the private forum. Here's a repost. Hope that's not bad style. 
Consider this file:int main(void)
{
LPCSTR file;
HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(file, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
}
When I hover over GENERIC_READ, the tooltip gives me the definition of FILE_SHARE_READ. When I hover over FILE_SHARE_READ, I get the definition of FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.
If I click on a symbol and then hover over it, I get the correct tooltip. But then the other symbols on the line are shuffled |
Stephen Turner
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