[Gambas-user] Editor with tooltips (Gambas 2)

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert:
> Am 28.11.2011 18:51, schrieb Charlie Reinl:
> > Am Montag, den 28.11.2011, 16:34 +0100 schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert:
> >> Am 28.11.2011 14:27, schrieb Charlie Reinl:
> >>> Am Montag, den 28.11.2011, 12:24 +0100 schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert:
> >>>> As I am using the editor at several places in my projects now, I would
> >>>> be happy if it was possible to give tooltips to the user.
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't know if you call them different, I mean the yellow helpline which
> >>>> gives an idea of the parameters you can state, e. g.
> >>>>
> >>>> Add(Value AS String [,Index AS Integer])
> >>>>
> >>>> as soon as you type the ( after .Add
> >>>>
> >>>> Is that functionality already there? Or does someone have an idea how to
> >>>> implement it?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your hints!
> >>>>
> >>>> Rolf
> >>>>
> >>> Salut Rolf,
> >>>
> >>> you should look at CheckCompletion in FEditor, in the gambas2 project
> >>> (the gambas2 IDE) .
> >>>
> >>>    Think that's what you'r looking for
> >>
> >> Thank you very much, but I think this is the drop-down list of
> >> suggestions that appears when you type "." for instance.
> >>
> >> What I was looking for is the small yellow "window" under my current
> >> code line that has what can be typed into a () for some function (system
> >> or own ones). It appears when you type "(" and looks like a tooltip of
> >> some kind. Or is it in there? Then I didn't find it.
> >
> > Salut Rolf,
> >
> > ok, if it is not this one, it has to be in FEditor it starts in
> > GetExpressionSignature and find you yellow Window in FSignature (between
> > is a long (debug) way)
> >
> 
> Salut, bonsoir Charlie,
> 
> This is my third answer :-) In the FEditor source I found how to pick 
> out text parts:
> 
> Editor[Lines] lets you get the contents of a specific line, and 
> Editor.Line and Editor.Column point to the cursor position. Easy as 
> cake... if you know it ;-)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rolf

Hi Rolf,

all I know, comes from debugging.
All happened in FEditor.
Startes with 'Editor_KeyPress'
is parsed by 'CheckCompletion'
and sent to 'GetExpressionSignature' 

With this background you should be able to to find out where Benoît took
the information's.

good luck
Charlie