[QScintilla] AutoCompletion for object based languages...is it possible?

[Gedalia Pasternak]

Hi Eric,
   I have autocomplete working for objects, the way I do it is by looking
for .,->,: every time a keystroke is pressed. I then parse the code that
comes before the member operator and create a user list on the fly with
available information. In my case I'm parsing a dynamic language ( lua ) and
I've just resorted to having rules about the names of objects (ugh).
   I think some those concepts got integrated into the new QsciAbstractAPIs
class
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/QScintilla2/classQsciAbstractAPIs.html#62a50642b0b058016ed2fdf0922bdee8

  I haven't actually upgraded to qscintilla 2.3 yet. But I'd probably start
with the abstract API class.

   Sorta p.s. I don't think you'll find a simple way to determine what type
an object is without either some serious parsing of your code or a language
that supports reflection, even with a programming language that would let
you check what properties a given object has, it's tough to do that before
you compile the code..

-gedalia

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Eric Fontana <eric at carbondesignsystems.com
> wrote:

>  Well; I've been experimenting with the AutoComplete (QsciAPIs) api and
> got
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> it working, however its not that useful without the next step;
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> I have an embedded QtScript object in my app, I registered a global
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> property "Project" to access it from the Script.
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> When you type "Project" (dot) "Project." the autocomplete pops up
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> and I can select a method name ,that works great.
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> Howerver, if a method returns an object, lets say for example:
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> var x = Project.Color;
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> If color was a QObject which had a name property I can type
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>  x.name
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> However, since "x" isn't known to the autocomplete api, it's not known.
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> Is there a way to know when "x" is defined "var x = …" easily?
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> I also noticed that the load() method doesn't support a return type
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> from the loader file.
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> Has anyone done this before?
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> Thanks
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> Eric
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