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From: POVMAN
Subject: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 03:46:39
Message: <447bf85f$1@news.povray.org>
Are there any plans to add Intellisense type popups to the POV-Ray 
interface?  It's a real cool feature in Visual Studio/Eclipse and speeds my 
codeing no end.  I was thinking this weekend that a similar thing in POV-Ray 
would be cool

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 07:50:00
Message: <web.447c309c73fa50a73976a8750@news.povray.org>
"POVMAN" <s### [at] acom> wrote:
> Are there any plans to add Intellisense type popups to the POV-Ray
> interface?

Semantic completion -- "Intellisense", in M$ terms -- is only really nice in
heavily OO languages, so that you can chain several deeply nested method
calls very easily.  I don't think it'd be of much use in a procedural
language like the SDL.

You can however have a simpler textual completion based on names in scope,
like emacs, vim, SciTE, kate, textpad and several other good text editors
offer.  Works faster than "Intellisense" and is nice enough for the simpler
setup of the SDL.  Working with tags even get you the benefit of quickly
reaching the original definition and going back and forth to know the
parameters of functions...


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 08:06:32
Message: <447c3548$1@news.povray.org>
"POVMAN" <s### [at] acom> wrote in message news:447bf85f$1@news.povray.org...
> Are there any plans to add Intellisense type popups to the POV-Ray 
> interface?  It's a real cool feature in Visual Studio/Eclipse and 
speeds my 
> codeing no end.  I was thinking this weekend that a similar thing in 
POV-Ray 
> would be cool

you do know POV-Ray for windows has tab-completion, right?

cu!
-- 
#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*C/50#end#macro _(b,e,k,l)#local C=0;#while(C<50)
sphere{G(b,e)+3*z.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1;
#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
_(0x+y.5+y/2x)_(0x-y.5+y/2x)            // ZK http://www.povplace.com


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From: POVMAN
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 08:12:58
Message: <447c36ca$1@news.povray.org>
> You do know POV-Ray for windows has tab-completion, right?

No I didnt.  I've been using it for 5 years and didn't know that!

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From: POVMAN
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 08:14:03
Message: <447c370b$1@news.povray.org>
"> Semantic completion -- "Intellisense", in M$ terms -- is only really nice 
in
> heavily OO languages, so that you can chain several deeply nested method
> calls very easily.  I don't think it'd be of much use in a procedural
> language like the SDL.

I've developed over the last weekend a bunch of macros that call other 
macros, so I was really thinking along those lines.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 08:25:00
Message: <web.447c38b373fa50a7f2ff13290@news.povray.org>
"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
> you do know POV-Ray for windows has tab-completion, right?

unfortunately, it just works for keywords, not for user-defined variables,
functions and macros...

textual completion in editors like vim, emacs, SciTE, textpad, kate and
others work great though! :)


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 14:37:35
Message: <447c90ee@news.povray.org>
POVMAN <s### [at] acom> wrote:
> No I didnt.  I've been using it for 5 years and didn't know that!

  Reading the documentation once in a while can help a lot.

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From: Leroy
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 30 May 2006 23:48:18
Message: <447D11C0.1000306@joplin.com>
POVMAN wrote:
> No I didnt.  I've been using it for 5 years and didn't know that!

   You are not alone! I just discovered it yesterday :)


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 1 Jun 2006 14:50:04
Message: <447f36dc@news.povray.org>
POVMAN wrote:
>> You do know POV-Ray for windows has tab-completion, right?
> 
> No I didnt.  I've been using it for 5 years and didn't know that!

try ctrl-space too


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Intellisense
Date: 3 Jun 2006 03:35:32
Message: <44813bc4$1@news.povray.org>
"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:447f36dc@news.povray.org...
> POVMAN wrote:
> >> You do know POV-Ray for windows has tab-completion, right?
> > 
> > No I didnt.  I've been using it for 5 years and didn't know that!
> 
> try ctrl-space too

hmm, didn't know that one :)

cu!
-- 
#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*C/50#end#macro _(b,e,k,l)#local C=0;#while(C<50)
sphere{G(b,e)+3*z.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1;
#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
_(0x+y.5+y/2x)_(0x-y.5+y/2x)            // ZK http://www.povplace.com


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