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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
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 Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 2:38:44 PM
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In 1446, I used to be able to type "ov" then hit TAB in an .h file to get "override". Now I have to go "ov" + DOWN ARROW + TAB.
What's up with that?
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 15 2006 : 2:02:14 PM
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are you getting a suggestion listbox (question mark icons) with no higlighted item in it?
if so then VA thinks you may be defining a new variable or function, so the suggestion is there, but probably not valid. before you had to escape the listbox away to correctly enter a new definition. |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Jul 17 2006 : 2:36:22 PM
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yes that seems the case....
but why would i be trying to define a new variable before the ";" ? |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19021 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2006 : 6:57:57 PM
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VA is guessing, since it cannot assume the current file is syntactically correct and is going to compile. anything that boils down to guessing is going to get it wrong some of the time *sigh*
can you reproduce this effect on demand? i have seen the inverse myself, where suggestions are highlighted when i am defining a new variable, but it is fairly rare. |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Jul 18 2006 : 7:02:49 PM
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YES, every time.
in a header i have:
// Called to perform a command.
// Takes in Info and returns ResultInfo.
virtual void DoCommandInternal(
const CDoCommandInfo& Info,
CDoCommandResultInfo& ResultInfo);
if I put the caret *before* the ; and type "ov", VAX will misbehave as mentioned above.
if I put the care *after* the ; and type "ov", VAX will put its focus on "override" and i can just hit tab.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19021 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2006 : 4:04:15 PM
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sorry about the delay, i got side tracked. using your example i see exactly what you describe. in fact even after removing the parameters i see exactly what you describe.
case=1773 |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
310 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2006 : 1:02:52 PM
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this should be fixed before the build is considered a release candidate...
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SvenC
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Aug 31 2006 : 01:54:30 AM
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I do not have the keyword "override" in my listboxes at all.
Just looked up that it is indeed a valid VC++ keyword. Using VS2005 + VAX1533 |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Sep 01 2006 : 2:16:49 PM
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| perhaps that's the problem, but it's something that was broken in the 15xx builds, as it did work fine in 1446. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19021 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2006 : 4:32:37 PM
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i believe the problem is because VA thinks you are declaring a new variable or class member, so the suggestion is unlikely to be valid.
the feature that suggestion listboxes appear without focus is relatively new, but off hand i do not remember if this was in 1446 or not. if it was added after 1446 this would explain why this is a new issue.
i have bumped the priority on this case for you.
the problem with saying this should be fixed before going for a release candidate is that we have quite a lot of open bugs, with more being added on a regular basis. if we waited until all significant bugs were fixed we would never get anything released *sigh* |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 12:50:25 PM
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i know, i understand... :( but it worked really well in the previous builds, and that's why i was hoping you would fix it..
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Sep 14 2006 : 1:48:39 PM
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Small comment: VA X doesn't highlight suggestions when you are typing a symbol so you can type Tab and Enter easily. (Many people like to align or format definitions according to some style -- some of them imposed.) As well, definitions aren't often the case where a suggestion does any good. Sometimes, yes; many times, no.
It's not the case that VA X doesn't highlight because it doesn't think its suggestion is good.
You might argue the "non highlighting" should occur while typing one part of the definition and not another, but that gets ugly fast.
This is likely why the highlighting occurs after the semicolon in the example of this thread, but not prior to it. |
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
310 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2006 : 3:01:37 PM
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| hmm well any keywords that are useful in definitions such as const, virtual, override, in my opinion should be highlighted. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19021 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 4:29:24 PM
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this makes sense, so long as the caret is in a position where you cannot legally have a variable name. what if i am trying to type:
virtual int overrideMe();
here VA may well decide to suggest "override" as i am typing, but the suggestion should not be highlighted. sometimes these things are not quite as simple to fix as we would like. |
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru
310 Posts |
Posted - Oct 05 2006 : 4:17:13 PM
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| i'm talking about having the caret just before the ;... still does that. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19021 Posts |
Posted - Oct 06 2006 : 4:11:20 PM
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this is covered by case=1773, which is still in the queue.
we are adding a registry key option in the next few builds to always highlight the suggestion's. this is not a perfect fix for this specific problem, but it may help. |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - Oct 12 2006 : 6:59:58 PM
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| Case 1773 is fixed in build 1539. |
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1530: Autocomplete for override and const in .h
