Intellisense -- How to..

[Damien House]

Hello all.  I havn't been much of a member of the list, too much work at my 
real job ;)  But I like to keep up with the list.  It seems to me that you 
guys want to put in this (I'm a Borland Delphi user so I'll refer to it as 
Borland does) CodeCompletion feature in kdevelop, but you don't know how, or 
at least don't know where to start.  Well, I can tell you this much from 
what I know about Delphi.

Borland uses some really tricky methods of allowing all objects descended 
from TObject to store references (pointers) to it's virtual method table, 
therefore allowing all objects to "See" it's member properties and 
functions, as well as the parameters.  I don't know exactly how they do it, 
there's a lot of asm in the source that I've read, but you might want to 
take a look at it, I'm not sure if Microsoft released their source for this, 
but I know for a fact Borland Delphi (for those of you that don't know, is 
descended from Object Pascal) ships the source for how they accomplished 
this.

As for kdevelop, sorry to say but I still have yet to actually download and 
compile it :(, but I'm looking forward to some vacation time when I can play 
around with it.

I hope i was helpful,

Damien House
Chief Software Engineer
Full Circle Solutions, Inc.
410-659-9983


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