Popup windows in auto-complete

Hamish Rodda rodda at kde.org
Sun Feb 25 22:21:59 UTC 2007


On Monday 26 February 2007 08:19, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 25.02.07 12:21:33, Nick Savoiu wrote:
> > --- Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On 24.02.07 19:32:46, Nick Savoiu wrote:
> > > > Are they children of the editor window?
> > >
> > > Yes they are.
> >
> > Hmm. Then shouldn't that enforce the proper Z-ordering
> > for windows?
>
> Not necessarily, you also have some message boxes in other apps that pop
> into the forground once and take focus.

Kate in 4.x has this fixed.

> > > > Because if I type something and quickly (alt+tab)
> > >
> > > switch away to  window X (that obscures the KDevelop
> > > window) then the auto-complete popup window appears
> > > on top of window X and also steals focus.
> > >
> > > Right, so don't do it ;)
> >
> > The problem is that I don't always have to switch away
> > quickly. I've noticed in 3.4 that often autocomplete
> > locks up the whole editor UI for 10-15 seconds so I
>
> Yeah, we really need to make it much faster for global-scope-lookups in
> 4.0.

Hopefully we can use the duchain in a background thread and populate it 
progressively as the completions are resolved.

> > switch away to something else instead of waiting for
> > autocomplete to popup the window.
>
> Turn off autocompletion and use the keyboard shortcut. Thats what I and
> the other kdevelop developers do, it just gets in one's way too often...

;)

Cheers,
Hamish.
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