Autocomplete 2021 r2

Bugs and Feature Requests
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Autocomplete did not work in some cases: (McOS 10.14.6)

Screenshot 2021-07-24 at 16.32.05

Should aMethod and bMethods be given as autocomplete no?

Screenshot 2021-07-24 at 16.32.22

If I write the call it works

Screenshot 2021-07-24 at 17.36.58

Either the contextual menu did not offers the Go to…

Screenshot 2021-07-24 at 17.36.37

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Example
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pity31xzy6fc2o/res.xojo_binary_project.zip?dl=0

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Already reported and fixed: <https://xojo.com/issue/65332>

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Autocomplete doesn’t work in so much cases.
We use nested modules and Using clauses a lot and the most time auto complete doesn’t work.

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Autocomplete for API2 ?

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I’m afraid I really need to do the work and report all the autocomplete errors. Otherwise, of course, nothing will ever change.

<https://xojo.com/issue/65373>

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You get it if you type MyViewer.MyE… etc

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That’s right.
But I guess that for autocomplete I should get everything that is in scope and isn’t producing a compiler error?

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Well, it’s not in scope. It is part of MyViewer but not part of MyViewerCanvas.

Move the enumeration to MyViewerCanvas and try it then in the MyViewerCanvas paint event.

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If it wasn’t in scope I couldn’t use it without compiler error.

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There are also som personal preferences that do not works at all; for example:

= ListBox.Align

To make it work, you have to write first the name if the ListBox:
ListBox1.Column(0) = ListBox.Align…

To be able to get Autocomplte, you have to Dim | Var a property…

With time, I learned to start typing Dim, then start the “real code“…

Really bad for me because sometimes I need to start the code first before I forget what I wanted to write, then add the Dims…

And they nearly are always in scope…

12

I did like, when I hit Tab key after entered a command that the autocomplete confirmed I entered a good instruction. Now nothing happens.

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Context ?

API or API2 ?

Code example, please.

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API2, as API1 is deprecated I won’t report bug or feature.

Enter

MyPopupEncod.selectedrowindex

go at the end of the line and hit Tab key. It will transform in

MyPopupEncod.SelectedRowIndex

Hit Tab key again, nothing happens. I don’t keep old version of Xojo, but I’m nearly thing it shown something to confirm the entry was good.

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Usually, peope complains about AutoComplete with the first API…, not API2. :wink:

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One more thing, if I write (with a mistake selecteT instead of selecteD)

MyPopupEncod.SelectetRowIndex

Nothing happens neither. Then how we know when it’s correct and when it’s not?

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I never wrote so long text;
I start with MyPop + Tab + dot + Sel + Tab

I cannot run Xojo 2021 right now, so sorry if it AutoComplete wrong.

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The question, for me, is: what should do the unwary, like me, who have opened (some of) their projects with the new version?

Coming back to 2021 r1 shows a warning preventing goint to hell.

Will the newwest version with this fixes comming soon?

And, yes, I know, I should have been cautios and keep a clean copy of all projects before augrading…

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If you have list somewhere then I will sign onto them.

I been meaning to bombardier them with the auto complete bugs, their really making me insane.

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Does aMethod and bMethod return a result. If so then that’s why it doesn’t autocomplete. Autocomplete will only complete something that is valid. Assuming aMethod has a return value:

Var a as String
a = Window1.{tab}

So would:

Call Window1.{tab}

would autocomplete but

Window1.{tab}

Because you are not using the return value. Just a thought

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