[ANN] The IntelliSense Plugin is on the Road

[zryip theSlug]

Roger,

Thanks for the feedback. Will explore this issue.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Roger Eller
<roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
> Just a quick try on Mac (works as you described), but then on Windows, the
> focus jumps to the LC toolbar after "..." appears, unless I close tools
> first.
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM, zryip theSlug <zryip.theslug at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear LiveCode Users,
>>
>>
>> This is the time to release our Intellisense plugin to the Community.
>>
>> This plugin is the result of a challenge made with myself: how to have
>> a window displaying a contextual list on the top of the script editor,
>> but without changing any code in the editor?
>> The first version of the plugin was released with the Excel Lib
>> Commercial version to help coding with the now, more than 200
>> commands, we have in this Library.
>>
>> At this moment, the plugin is capable to auto-complete the word being
>> in edition in the script editor window. Type the begining of the
>> keyword, wait for the 3 dots mark and hit the tab key. Then the plugin
>> displays a list of proposals or it "autocompletes" the word if it
>> exists only one possibility.
>>
>> The dictionary of possible keywords is composed by:
>>
>> - the LC commands
>> - the LC functions
>> - the LC properties
>> - the LC messages
>> - the datagrid library
>> - the Libraries in use
>>
>> We have a color for the LC keywords (blue) and a color for the
>> libraries keywords (green). In a future version these colors will be
>> customizable.
>> We have also an icon by family keywords (commands, functions, etc), to
>> be able to quickly identify the keyword kind.
>>
>> Here is an example of possible Messages when the keyword start by: "preop"
>>
>> http://www.aslugontheroad.com/images/Preview/Intellisense_Plugin/IP_Preopen.png
>>
>>
>> We can navigate through the list by hitting the up and down keyboard
>> keys, or clicking on the list to choose a keyword. Press the return
>> key for validating the choose, or press esc for closing the list.
>>
>> The plugin is also the good companion for finding the command you have
>> read somewhere, but you don't remember the exact writing. Instead of
>> searching in the doc, you can start the word by "?" and the plugin
>> will help you. An example with searching the "column" keywords for
>> coding with the datagrid object:
>>
>> http://www.aslugontheroad.com/images/Preview/Intellisense_Plugin/IP_Searchingcontains.png
>>
>>
>> The plugin is refreshing it's dictionary every time we are adding or
>> removing a library (stacks in use), and have been tested with
>> libraries such as SQL Yoga, Animation Engine and our Excel Library.
>>
>> In future versions, more contexts detection will be added. For example
>> it will be possible to have:
>>
>> - a filtered list of keywords (the previous word is "on" or "command"
>> or "pass" or "exit", so the list is only containing "Messages"
>> keywords)
>> - the list of declared variables in the dictionary.
>>
>>
>> The plugin is quite experimental and not perfect, but I'm using it all
>> the time and I'm really happy with it. I done some recent improvements
>> and I decided to share the result with the Community.
>> Any comments or suggestions, welcome.
>>
>>
>> The Intellisense plugin can be downloaded by following this link:
>> http://www.aslugontheroad.com/download/category/5-open-sources
>>
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> --
>> Zryip TheSlug
>> http://www.aslugontheroad.com
>>
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