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rblondeau
Tomato Guru

Canada
102 Posts

Posted - Jun 23 2004 :  6:19:07 PM  Show Profile
I hadn't noticed before but when I hover over a variable (const or otherwise) it sometimes displays the variable's initializing value and other times it leaves out the intializing value.

I have the following code:


const char* NAME = "Ray";

...

if(strKey == NAME)
{
strNewRecName = oNewRecord["TDAM"];
}


When I hover over NAME in the if() a tool tip pops up saying:

const char* NAME = "Ray";

If I move the cursor off the variable (the tooltip closes) and then back over the variable, the tooltip that appears is different:

const char* NAME;


The only way to get the tooltip to display the declaration of the variable AND it's value is to hover over something else to cause a different tooltip to appear, and then to go back to the NAME variable and hover over it once again.

Is this VAX kind of working, or am I looking at a VAX tool tip one time, and then a dev studio another time? It would be nice if it always displayed the initializing value, especially for a const variable.

rblondeau
Tomato Guru

Canada
102 Posts

Posted - Jun 23 2004 :  7:30:06 PM  Show Profile
By the way, this is ocurring while editing the code, not when debugging.
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru

Portugal
2322 Posts

Posted - Jun 23 2004 :  8:30:40 PM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by rblondeau

... or am I looking at a VAX tool tip one time, and then a dev studio another time?



Exactly this. I believe this is related to the "prefer intellisense" setting which seems to work "most of the time" and sometimes overrides VAX's better tooltips.
Hopefully fixed in the next build(s).
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rblondeau
Tomato Guru

Canada
102 Posts

Posted - Jun 24 2004 :  11:51:28 AM  Show Profile
I do have the "Prefer Intellisense" setting turned off. If that setting is only partially working, then I hope it gets fixed in the next release.
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support
Whole Tomato Software

5566 Posts

Posted - Jun 24 2004 :  12:51:48 PM  Show Profile
Enabling "Prefer Intellisense" means you want VA X to give the IDE the option of displaying a tooltip. If the IDE does not, VA X tries.

You see tooltips from the IDE and VA X. One contains an initial value; the other does not. We cannot change what the IDE displays. We do make VA X try its best. Not sure in this case, which knows the initial value and which does not.

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