code-completion + documentation + tooltips

[David Nolden]

Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 21:06 schrieb Jens Dagerbo:
> Still having problems with SVN? If you pop into #kdevelop we might be able
> to help you figure it out. Or, if you want, just send me the new patch and
> I'll commit it for you. :)

Yes I have.. it's not getting better :) I checked the official list of 
kde-svn-accounts on the net, and my name is missing in it, so the account 
probably doesn't exist. Maybe it's because I sent a wrong key(RSA insdead of 
DSA), but that's about a Month ago. Last week I reapplied for a 
https-account, but no answer yet.


But now to get to the positive news :)

1. I rewrote the calltips-part with the new system, and it's quite useful now.

2. I changed the cpp-parser to nicely parse comments within the 
code(concerning variables, typedefs, classes, enums(including each 
enumerator), and functions) and store them into the ast, changed both 
code-models to store and give access to those comments, and now show them in 
the tooltips of the class-view, as additional comment for each function in 
the completion-box, and in the calltips-box.

3. I TRIED to create tooltips so that you can just point your mouse on an 
arbitrary part of some expression, and the tooltips show you all information 
available about the expression's resulting type/functions including comments 
etc. Generally that's no big Problem with the available system, but I can' 
get the tooltip to work correctly. With the Kate-editor, the tooltip respects 
the set delay and asks for the text in the right moment, but then doesn't 
show it. The Qt-designer based editor does show the box, but does not respect 
the delay and updates it whenever I move the mouse for just a pixel, and thus 
isn't very useful either. Also I prefer the kate-editor anyway, so can 
someone help me get that show the tooltips? 

The best would be some custom tooltip-widget that could offer more 
flexibility.. but that would be too much additional work for me right now.

I stored the current patch with tooltips disabled at 
http://www.art-master.de/David/nolden060516.diff for looking and testing. I'm 
still planning to split it into atomic parts so it can go into svn, but I 
think that's going to be quite some work since I did so many different 
things.. btw. an incomplete list of changes is stored at 
http://www.art-master.de/David/changes

Greetings, David