Re: Code Completion
Re: Code Completion
- Subject: Re: Code Completion
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:42:50 +0000
F5 will only finish a word based on words you have already typed...
It is NOT even a pathetic attempt at code-completion...
What we NEED is proper code completion (such as code-insight from
Microsoft, or code completion as seen in Eclipse)
If you have never seen these, than perhaps it is ok, that you think that
F5 is "better than nothing"
In fact not it is not "better than nothing", because people would not be
able to point to it and dismiss calls for proper code completion.
I don't care what they have to do, borrow it from the open source code of
eclipse, come up with their own competitive version... But it is as simple
as this VB has had code-insight for close on 7 years (if not longer), and
we are still waiting for an attempt at copying it from apple...
John.
Marc Weil <email@hidden>
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03/06/2003 11:25 AM
To: MAGDELENAT Philippe <email@hidden>, Cocoa Digest
<email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Code Completion
On 3/6/03 5:37 AM, "MAGDELENAT Philippe"
<email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi,
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New to Cocoa and ObjC (and then to PB), programming in Java for a
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living, I am seriously scared by the lack of code completion in PB.
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I might have missed something but the PB's capabilities in this domain
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are seriously limited. I know that, once, code completion wasn't even
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an option but still, when used to develop using Idea (for those of you
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who know it) where everything is done to improve your code quality,
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your speed and your re-factoring when needed, I wonder about how
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painful it is to type ObjC code.
Actually, it DOES have code completion. Just type in the first few letters
of the symbol (variable name, method, class, etc.) and press F5. It isn't
*real* code completion, meaning that it isn't going to complete every
symbol
in the current file, but rather, it will complete symbols as you have
already manually typed in. If it guesses the wrong symbol when you press
F5,
just press it again (and continue to press it) to cycle through all of the
guesses it has. It works about 80-90% of the time, but it's better than
nothing!
Marc Weil
--
"Software exists to solve your problems. We exist to make the problems."
Microsoft
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