code completion help...

[John Birch]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 16:26, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2001 09:39, you wrote:
> > Not sure. I might be able to help if I could see your patch. What version
> > of kdevelop are you dealing with? kdevelop1.3, 1.4 or 2.0?
>
> doh, that was stupid of me, i'm working on 1.4...=)  this is my first linux
> project and also first qt/kde project ever, and i have no idea how a patch
> works.  could you point me in the direction of where i could pick up some
> info on em?

Depends on how you got kdevelop1.4 -
if you ftp the tar files then use "diff -Naur oldKdevelopDir NewKdevelopDir > 
kdevelop.patch"  - requires a copy of the original
For cvs just "cvs diff -u > kdevelop.patch" in the kdevelop top level dir.

>
> > What about using a QPopupMenu instead of a QListBox? Does that have the
> > style and functionality you want? But look at dbgtoolbar.cpp for code
> > that uses a QFrame without the decorations. (again in kdevelop1.4 not the
> > kdevelop2.0. I've yet to fix that properly)
>
> i'm not sure about the functionality of each, but a listbox came to mind
> because of the scoll bars and the ability of the user to resize it.

You are right - a listbox would be much better than a popup :-)

>
> > Sounds good. I'd be very interesting in seeing what you have, especially
> > if you are working on kdevelop1.4.
>
> so far the way it works is, it uses a QStack to push/pop curly braces to
> find the begining and end lines of the method definition and the method
> signature that the cursor is in.  then when you hit a '.' or '->' it grabs
> the last word you typed and method signature and looks up the class that
> the method belongs to, then searches the class store for the class to see
> if it has the "last word" was defined in it.
>
> so far, for the sake of wanting to get something working quickly, i broke
> modularity all over the place i think.  i made CEditWidget a friend of
> KWriteDoc and KWriteView and vice versa.  i made a few select class vars
> public, etc.  i'll change all that and make proper public interfaces once
> its ready for presentation.
>
> there are two things that would help me out a lot.
> 1)  whats a regular expression definition that would match a c++ method
> signature?  i.e.  match something like "QStringList*
> CCodeCompletion::getMethods(const QString& aClassVar) {"
> 2)  some algorithm to convert someone's method signature they type in a
> .cpp file to match the string required by
> CParsedContainer::getMethodByNameAndArg().  i think i'll work on this
> today, but once thats done, the code completion class should recognize
> method params as well as class vars.

I'll pass on this - hopefully someone else can give you pointers here

jbb

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