new features proposal for kdevelop4

[Marek Jasovsky]

Hi

as I have some experience with java and also c#/asp.net I have some
ideas, that might be helpful also for kdev4. one idea I have already
included in my reply to apaku C++ completion bug email.
(code-completion for libraries of the project)

one feature connected with that, would be ability to browse classes of
included libraries... is this possible? (Virtual tree in classes view,
where on top level are also libraries, not only project itself, and
then deeper, namespaces, classes, methods, fields...)

another feature is also close to refactoring of the code, but it is
something different. feature is available in AutoCode2008 plugin for
the VisualStudio IDE, and is aimed to speed up coding itself by using
shortcuts.

writing "string Name p" and pressing Ctrl-Enter will generate (for c#)
property and get and set methods within the property, and also local
variable _Name. for java / c++ this could create local variable too
and then accessor methods. (getName, setName)

there were also shortcuts to create default constructor of the class,
and many more.  AutoCode plugin in VS has also ability to edit
templates for these code snippets.

another idea, that I found so far in eclipse IDE and missed in all
other IDE's was quick (and I really mean quick) access to parent and
child methods (derived and inherited) from particular method within a
class.

In Editor, there was a bar on left side of editing area and each
method, that has been derived from parental class (could be also
virtual or overriden methods in c++), or this method was base method
for some other class, which has overriden it, there were small arrows
pointing up and down and clicking on them navigated user to requested
method. this was quite helpful when one needed functionality of
parental method. addition: it might be great to allow this also for
class libraries (when source code is available) so that we can for
example browse code of Qt libraries if our components extend some

I will definitely need some time to explore cpp parser and also code
model itself but I would be glad if I could implement some of those
ideas, I pointed out here.

Marek