[Gambas-user] Change to the Gambas IDE to improve the workflow

[Robert Rowe]

I've made a small change to my copy of the IDE that I feel is a great 
improvement. I love the completion menu but I don't like that you have 
to press the enter key to trigger it. The three keys that I most often 
press after entering a keyword or object name are the space key, the 
period or the left parenthesis. My change adds these three keys to the 
list that triggers the completion. Benoît, if you agree that these 
changes are positive could you add them to the official copy of the IDE 
source?

You will need to get the latest gambas2 source from subversion. The 
specific line(s) on which to make the changes will probably be different 
in different versions. I haven't checked gambas3 but I'm sure that the 
code is in the same procedure (ManageKey).

Here are the changes:

In the FCompletion class, line 515, comment the line that says:

ME.Hide

and insert a line that says:

InsertItem(TRUE)

This enables the spacebar to trigger completion.

Add the following 2 case blocks to enable the period and left 
parenthesis keys:

    CASE 40 'Left Parenthesis
        InsertItem(TRUE)
        RETURN FALSE

    CASE 46 'Period
        InsertItem(TRUE)
        RETURN FALSE
   


Robert Rowe