Re: [ jEdit-devel ] SpeedJava code completion plugin

[Jim <jim...@po...>]

Hi Dirk,

Thank you very much for the feedback, this is what I was hoping for.

 > - Please put "...depend.1=jdk 1.2" in the props file, since it uses JDK
 > 1.2 methods

Done...  I forgot about that.

>- Enter "System.out.println(", then invoke action speedjava.complete.
>The popup comes up showing the methods of the current class (super!),
>but the table cannot be navigated with the cursor keys. It can, however,
>be navigated if the popup shows up on after a dot has been typed.

I'll take a look at this later today.

>- No popup comes up on the last dot of "System.out.". out is a public
>member field of System. Is SpeedJava designed to determine the type of
>member fields and show it's methods?

I think right now it doesn't actually look for members like this (actually, 
you are confirming this :).  The algorithm that determines types needs a 
bit of work, but this shouldn't be too bad to fix.

>- Please publish the source. (You have to, it's GPLed... ;). Looking
>into it with JavaInsight is awkward...

Sorry about this - I thought I had included it in the source.  I released 
it in kind of a hurry yesterday.  Later today I'll make another release 
that includes the source.

>- What are your long-term goals?

Well, I have quite a bit of other java "speedup" functionality sitting in 
an old editor that I wrote many years ago, and ultimately I'd like to get 
it moved over to jEdit.  Before I released this version, I had a whole ton 
of stuff in SpeedJava, and last week decided to go the route of making it 
as small and fast as possible (think it's around 35k or so), and making 
more smaller, tighter, clearly defined plugins.  Certainly member 
completion is (to me) a very important part of java development, so that's 
where I started.  What I'd like is to continue to tweak it and improve it 
over time.  The last week or so, I've finally begun to use jEdit for all my 
development work, and have been working on SpeedJava as I've found problems.

I would of course love for it to eventually be in plugin central, but I 
don't know if it is too redundant or if there is enough interest.

Also I hope to have a couple of other plugins available: another "speed 
java" kind of plugin with the other stuff I was mentioning (actually I was 
thinking the right name for the current SpeedJava is JComplete or 
something?), and a speech plugin that makes java development by voice work 
reasonably well. This last one is a way off, as my existing JSAPI code to 
do this needs some good shoehorning to get into a plugin, as well as a more 
troubling problem where the jvm crashes every now and then (really crashes 
- no stack traces, just system crash codes).

Anyway this is probably more info than you wanted.  Hope I touched on your 
questions at least.

Thanks,
Jim