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Auto-completion for external headers [message #21623]

Sat, 30 May 2009 02:52

idaho
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Registered: April 2007
Location: Frankfurt-am-Main

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Hi, folks,

Perhaps, someone has already asked this question but I couldn't find a solution - if there is one. Is it possible to auto-complete symbols from OS-specific headers, like <windows.h>, e.g? Not a big issue, of course, but it would certainly come handy at times.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Auto-completion for external headers [message #21710 is a reply to message #21623]

Mon, 01 June 2009 19:47

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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idaho wrote on Fri, 29 May 2009 20:52

Hi, folks,

Perhaps, someone has already asked this question but I couldn't find a solution - if there is one.

Under development.

The problem is that external headers are usually macro-heavy and macros cause big problems if you want to be fast.

Anyway, it is coming. I hope it will be working at the end of year, hopefully much sooner.

Mirek

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Re: Auto-completion for external headers [message #21907 is a reply to message #21710]

Wed, 10 June 2009 11:10

cbpporter
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Registered: September 2007

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Actually there is a workaround. You can create a package based the library you want to use and with a little luck it will work fine. It can be a dummy package (i.e. only headers).

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Re: Auto-completion for external headers [message #21940 is a reply to message #21907]

Thu, 11 June 2009 19:34

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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cbpporter wrote on Wed, 10 June 2009 05:10

Actually there is a workaround. You can create a package based the library you want to use and with a little luck it will work fine. It can be a dummy package (i.e. only headers).

Thats true and it is also true that in one point in the past, I was experimenting with "automatic external header package".

Anyway, all of that failed, because system headers are usually extremely full of macros -> results of parsing were nil.

That is why I believe we must deal with macros first, then do external headers.

Mirek

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Re: Auto-completion for external headers [message #21950 is a reply to message #21940]

Thu, 11 June 2009 23:34

cbpporter
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Registered: September 2007

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Couldn't we have in the first phase a weak preprocessor that only preprocesses external headers in order to determine the program structure and without these macros affecting .cpp files? I mean preprocess <stdio.h> and all it's includes, parse once that file to determine what functions it contains, cache and make that list available to .cpp files without actually having those macros effect the way Assiste++ sees out .cpp files? This implementation would be much easier.

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Re: Auto-completion for external headers [message #21952 is a reply to message #21950]

Thu, 11 June 2009 23:45

mirek
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cbpporter wrote on Thu, 11 June 2009 17:34

I think I will go "full solution"...

Mirek

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