GSOC report [ Code Completition in Basic IDE ]

[Noel Power]

On 12/08/13 08:27, Gergő Mocsi wrote:
> Hi all,
> there are lots of changes in the feature.
> I've added a couple of options into the ModalDialog (View/IDE
> options), and it's corresponding options into CodeCompleteOptions class.
> Use extended types: when this is turned off (and Code Complete on), it
> can autocomplete structs , turned on autocompletes interfaces also.
> Corrected the other functions: there were some smaller bugs in
> "Autoclose Procedures": it inserted "End Sub" when autcompleting
>  function.
> I've also found some problems(yes, again) in the nested reflection(the
> new exteded types option caused some problems), but they're fixes.
> Code: I did a lot of code fixes: I've tried to tear it apart logically
> as much as I can. I've created a class UnoTypeCodeCompletor to handle
> the code completition in the ide.
These are all great improvements & fixes, I think we should be thinking
about merging to master, it's great that there are actually useful
things that work even without the 'Extended Type' support
> Another significant fix is that I've made the ListBox to use KeyInput
> instead of PreNotify to handle the key event.
hmm, I guess this goes back to our conversation on irc, I still don't
get it why you need or want to use KeyInput on your subclassed ListBox,
in the end it calls PreNotify ( directly ) in the case of up/down arrows
and tracks the typed text in the other instance. I believe if you didn't
call the base class ListBox::KeyEvent then the behaviour would be
exactly the same ( but maybe I am wrong there ) But if not imho it would
be clearer to have a new public method on the CodeCompleteListBox that
you use to send the KeyEvents to.
> Plans for this week: I'll replace the ModalDialog with a SvxTabPage in
> Tools/Options dialog.
I think once this is in place we could merge to master the current code :-)

Would you think about maybe showing some screenshots ( or doing a
screencast etc. ) to show off the nice work that you have done

Noel