OpenEuphoria

Re: IDE Editor Hints

• Posted by David Cuny <euphoria_coder at HOTMAIL.COM> Mar 30, 2001
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CK Lester wrote:

>>One option is to have is display a routine prototype.
>>...
>I would prefer this method.

Good.

>It even highlights (bold) what parameter it is accepting at the time.

This can be done. It obviously requires an intelligent parser, but it's 
doable.

>It also recognizes functions I've created and shows me those parameters.

Also doable. EE creates a function list, for example, by scanning the 
current source file. A possibly nice feature would be if it scanned 
'include' files, and included those in the hints as well.

Anything can be done - it's just a matter of work, and how much overhead you 
want to add.

>I don't know that that [automatically including files]
>would be bad,  especially if the option to turn off the feature were 
>available.

I initially thought that it should warn you when it's doing that, but all 
the design books tell you nothing irritates a user more than a chatty dialog 
box that serves no real purpose - the code should just do it and shut up. 


>>Another option would be to have the hint show a possible> completion for 
>>what you are currently typing...
>This I'm not excited about, unless it was very inconspicuous or I could 
>disable it.

Yes; if you didn't like it, it would get irritating *real* fast. On the 
other hand, VB has a similar feature.

Thanks for the feedback!

-- David Cuny