Re: [cdt-dev] CDT API hover help and completion

[Chris Moller <cmoller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd heard from a fellow Hatter earlier today that IBM was doing some 
work in completion.  It sounds like we lucked into a workable division 
of labor: you folks concentrate on completion, we'll do hover.

We should, however, I suspect, work from a common database, or at least 
a common db format and mechanism for handling a library of dbs for 
different APIs.  Do you have anything in mind?  What I have right now is 
a smallish regexec-based hunk of C code that parses .texi files -- 
fairly easy since texi files use text tags -- but doesn't yet produce a 
real db.  When I have a better idea of how to impliment hover/completion 
I'll tinker the code to produce whatever is necessary.

I just looked at doxygen.  While it looks slick, it also looks like it 
won't be very useful for code --like glibc source -- that's not marked 
up.  My guess is that we'll need several ways to create dbs, possibly 
basing future work on doxygen, but using custom code and other stuff for 
legacy APIs.

Chris

Douglas Schaefer wrote:
> Hi Chris,
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> While the hover help with content assist will be very useful, we are 
> already working on a more generic mechanism for code assist (the 
> completion side of things) using the new parser.  Please make sure you 
> sync up with Hoda Amer (hamer@xxxxxxxxxx) and the gang over here as you 
> proceed.
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> Another thought is how about integrating something like doxygen to 
> generate the help from the files in the workspace.  My guess is that we 
> will need a framework to enable us to plug in API help from a number of 
> different places, including the texi files.
>
> Thanks!
> Doug Schaefer, Senior Software Developer
> IBM Rational Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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> To the world at large:
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> We here at Le Chapeau Rouge have started a project to supply API "hover 
> help" and completion mechanisms for CDT.
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> The basis for both of these is the construction of a collection of 
> indexable databases containing the necessary information.  What's at 
> least a first pass at creating one such db has already been done by 
> writing a custom parser that extracts info from the GNU glibc manual 
> .texi sources.  As time goes on, we plan to add dbs for libs like X, 
> GTK, and whatever else looks useful.
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> Our next step will be to tinker the CDT plugin to make use of the dbs, 
> using the mechanisms already in place for JDT.
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> Any input -- suggestions, wish-lists, whatever -- is welcome.
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> Chris Moller
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