Re: [Pydev-code] re: PyDev development

[Dana M. <dan...@ya...>]

Parhaum, comments inline
--- Parhaum Toofanian <pto...@ho...> wrote:
> I have a feeling this isn't going to reply to the thread I started,
> so sorry
> if this starts another one.
> 
> As for the help guide, I know org.python.pydev.help is there already,
> but I
> was thinking a more extended version, kind of newbie-fying everything
> to
> explain each feature individually.  I'll commit the things I added in
> a
> couple minutes so you can see what I mean.  I added a section to help
> in
> that kind of format.
> 

So, would this be basically an html page like this one:
http://home.tiscali.be/redrobin/jython/

> As for code completion, I'm not precisely the most knowledgable
> person
> around, so I don't know what I could add to what you already know.  I
> was
> just checking if it was still being worked on, so I have only gone
> through
> the code a bit without touching that particular entity.  I'd like to
> hear
> how you went about it, though.
>
I am still playing with it. You can see a screenshot of it attachment
[1]. Right now, what I have done is to wrap Jython as a plugin; I am
invoking a set of .py files I have in the library path for jython from
eclipse to introspect the editor content itself; I look for the
ectivating character (currently I am only looking for '.' which will
allow expansion of the symbol preceding it. so, in the screendump 
"." is the activating character, and "y" is the symbol expanded; the
list of completions is:

['addItem', 'list', '__class__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__init__',
'__module__']

I just create ICompletionProposals from that and that's what gets
diplayed (as seen in the screendump).
right now, what I am wrestling with is this:
1. my solution is brittle -- we don't want to force the user to have to
install jython. Therefore everything must be in a jar in our plugin.
That has proven to be a little painful but it needs to be done and I am
still goofing  around with the solution to that
2. we also need to expand to activate on at least "(" so that we can
get suggested args. See attachment [2] to understand what I am talking
about. That's a screencap from pyalamode

When I solve 1. above, I will check my current stuff in. I put this
aside for a while owing to an extremely busy time at work, but I am
close(r) now to wrapping it up.

 
> As for the features Dana mentioned, my first priority is to include
> features
> on the feature list I have, because I have a deadline for this by
> August,
> when my Master's project (what I'm working on) is to be completed. 

So what's on your feature list?
I am sure we would love to have it in any case.
If you want to talk this over by 'phone I will be happy to call you if
you provide a number.




> So
> before I can look into anything else with this, I must focus on what
> I have
> been tasked to do.  And since I'm still rather new to this
> development
> platform, I wouldn't be much help for a little while anyway, but I'll
> see
> what happens.
> 
Eclipse has got quite a learning curve. It's just a matter of
continuing to slog thru it; have fun and I can probably answer some of
your "next level" questions.

> - Parhaum
> 
thanks
- D
attachments:
[1] autocomplete-061004.gif
[2] autocomplete-PyAla-example.gif

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