code-completion, options

[David Nolden]

I fixed the 2 mentioned issues..

> Also, the parameter tooltips seems to have disappeared altogether. At least
> I can't make them appear anymore (but they were just barely useful as it
> were).

These need a workover anyway, I didn't touch that feature at all until now and 
maybe broke it somehow by the way. I'll look at it in time. :-)

> Not a problem, I can do that. I have some other changes I mean to do to the
> c++ options dialog anyway. Just tell me what you need.

Ok then, in general I'd need exactly what I've written plus a way to do 
hard-coded namespace-aliases.(for example for STL to work I hard-coded the 
alias "std=_GLIBCXX_STD" into the code because kdevelop does not seem to 
correctly apply aliases while parsing). One text-line would be enough for 
that.. since the function I use to insert new aliases takes a 
semicolon-seperated list of assignments anyway.

> One option I would like (if it should be an option at all..) would be to
> not put entries to unaccessible methods in the code completion popup. Since
> Protected and private methods/members of other classes or private
> methods/members of base classes aren't accessible, it's very unlikely you
> want to complete them.

That's something that must be thought about.. since every function, even 
private ones, is needed sometimes. :) Of course, better checking of which 
items are visible in the current context should be done, but that's not 
implemented yet. I don't know in which state I made the other patch, but in 
my version The completion-list is sorted by the access-rights, so public 
members/functions are at the top, then come protected, then private ones, and 
protected/private members have a remark behind them stating that they are 
private/protected, and in which class.

> I wasn't crazy about the methods names in bold, they ended up in smaller
> type than the non-bold text which made them harder to read. But I haven't
> looked yet on how you did it, so maybe it's just a problem with the font
> I'm using...

I did that because in my case, the font got noticably bigger when I bolded 
it(and too big fonts are bad for the overview that the class-view should give 
you), so I made it a bit smaller again. On my screen/font it looks good, but 
I have a pretty high resolution.. maybe it would be better not to bold the 
function-name, but rather give everything else a slightly lighter color.. hmm 
to make the user choose would of course be too much :)

Later this evening I'll try the svn-stuff again. The problem is that I didn't 
get any instructions.. I just once was asked which username I'd prefer and to 
send my RSA-key(that's why I hope the account is open), so I'll somehow have 
to find out how the whole stuff works. :)

greetings, David