[Eric] Srange intellisense behavior.

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, objectref wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I created an empty project in Eic4 and add a new form. The Qt Designer
> > opens and I construct the form with the widgets I need. Form file is
> > saved as findandrelace.ui.
> > I close the designer, see this file in project-Viewer, I do a "compile
> > form" and now I have a file Ui_findandreplace.py in project-Viewer
> > Sources.
> >
> > I add a file to the project so I can "use" the designer-generated class
> > and show the form, just the usual way. I do an "import Ui_findandreplace"
> > but I cannot see any properties/methods with the intellisense.
> >
> > E.x. I press Ui_findandreplace.Ui_FindAndReplaceDlg. and with Ctrl-Space
> > I suppose I would see the setupUi() method but I do not.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong ??
>
> No, you are doing fine. That feature is not present in eric4. QScintilla2
> expects API files of a specific format which it compiles into an internal
> format. Eric4 doesn't scan a file when it is saved in order to generate an
> API file. And if it did, this API file would need to be added to the list
> of API files for Python and would need to be compiled. After that step, the
> completions would be available for all Python scripts. Dynamic
> autocompletion is not supported by QScintilla2.

Dynamically adding API entries is supported, but parsing Python code to 
determines what those entries should be isn't the job of an editor widget.

It shouldn't be too difficult to compile the generated Python code and extract 
the new classes, methods etc and dynamically add them as API entries.

Phil