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chakie
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Finland
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 Posted - Jul 08 2014 : 03:00:34 AM
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I've used VA for a few months and have liked the nice code completion and syntax highlight. I use VS 2012 and it's a awful when it comes to editing C++, it doesn't do much to make your life nice and VA helps a lot there.
However, I've noticed that the code completion often bugs out and it creates annoying compilation errors. Often when the code completion popup comes up and I choose the right string, nothing seems to happen. So I do it again, nothing gets filled in. Eventually I type it manually after having wasted a lot of time and broken my mental flow. It turns out that VA has simply inserted the text at the beginning of the file, at position 0. Nowadays I know what happened and can go remove the crap before compiling and getting some weird compiler errors and wasting even more time.
It would be nice if this worked, as VA has found the correct completable text and the cursor is at the correct place (obviously, otherwise the completion would not know the context), so it just needs to insert the chosen text.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 08 2014 : 8:52:24 PM
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This should not be happening, the suggestion should be being inserted at the caret position, and correct column.
If you look at:
IDE Tools menu -> Extensions and Updates...
what extensions are listed on you system? On a full install of VS2012 with VA I have the following extensions listed:
Microsoft Web Developer Tools
NuGet Package Manager
Visual Assist
Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Library for JavaScript
I am wondering if you have a different list, since an interaction problem with another extension could well explain the problem you are seeing. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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chakie
New Member
Finland
9 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2014 : 03:12:24 AM
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I have:
* Microsoft ASP.Net and Web Tools
* NuGet Package Manager
* VA
* Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Library For Javascript
The error does not happen always, in most cases it works fine. Especially std::map<>::iterator seems to be troublesome when I want to refer to iter->first or iter->second.
Also things like the automatically changed . to -> can be very, very annoying. Not sure if that's something VA does?
Assume this:
boost::shared_ptr<Component> SharedComponent;
SharedComponent sc;
To access Component methods you do:
sc->foo();
sc->bar();
but sometimes you want to access something from boost::shared_ptr, like:
sc.reset( new Component );
Whatever I do, the "." (the dot) gets replaced with -> and it's very annoying. It usually ends with me having to copy and paste in the dot there or type "->." and then delete the "->" to get only the "." left. Very, very annoying.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19004 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2014 : 3:20:53 PM
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So much for my theory that this problem was being caused by another extension. Are you able to reproduce the problem with the listbox inserting the code at column zero on demand?
Dot being converted to -> is a VA feature, but this can get in the way when you actually want a dot, not ->. The first step is to simply press backspace once, this will undo the conversion, leaving you with the dot you originally typed.
If you never want VA to convert dot to -> you can turn off one or both of the options:
VA Options -> Correction -> Convert dot to -> (only in C/C++ files)
VA Options -> Correction -> Convert dot to -> if operator -> is overloaded |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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chakie
New Member
Finland
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Posted - Jan 22 2015 : 02:37:17 AM
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I didn't use VA for a while and now enabled it again in my VS 2012. This does now work perfectly, no bad replacements anymore. :)
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 22 2015 : 12:22:25 PM
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| Thank you for the update. I still have no idea why you had these nasty problems, so I am glad that things are now working correctly for you. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Code completion inserts text at beginning of file
