[Synedit-devel] TSynCompletionProposal - New Version

[Daniel R. <dan...@ad...>]

Hello, 

here's a new version of TSynCompletionProposal and a demo application.
As announced this version is slightly incompatible to existing programs,
so please read carefully!!!


I. Changes:
===========

Common:
- Every event has a Sender-parameter now
- After an OnPaintItem event the canvas is reset
- If you remove the current editor from TSynCompletionProposal the
proposal form will be closed. (Avoids AV on form close, when using
multiple editors with one TSynCompletionProposal)
- Changed all #xx character constants to SYNEDIT_xxx constants (#13->
SYNEDIT_RETURN, #32 -> SYNEDIT_SPACE and so on.)
- Changed Position-property from published to public, since it does not
make sense at design time.
- Some minor fixes

ctCode:
- New option: scoConsiderWordBreakChars. If activated,
TSynCompletionProposal handles all characters which are declared as word
break characters in the highlighter (if any) as EndOfTokenChr.
- OnPaintItem event gets the absolute index of the item to paint instead
of the relative index.
- Proposal form now is a stay-on-top window, too. Some Windows functions
which take the focus from the proposal form but don't send any message
like lost focus, deactive, ... hide the proposal form behind the window
containing the editor. (Opening the system menu of the window through
the Alt key, for example)


II. Warnings
============

1) Before you make any modifications to your system make a backup copy
from your old SynCompletionProposal.pas and any other file you plan to
modify.

2) This version introduces some new properties so you have to recompile
your SynEdit package.

3) Take a look at the attached demo, before you make modifications to
your applications

4) See the attached doc for some more information about modifying your
applications.


III. Annotations
================

I've tested the new version under D3 and D6.

The demo makes use of the LaTeX highlighter. If you don't have it,
simply ignore all error messages which occur when you open the demo.

The demo cannot be compiled under D3 (and any other Delphi version which
lacks the StringReplace function) Simple outcomment the lines containing
it. (Use (* and *) rather than { and })


If you've got comments or problems, please let me know.

Regards, 
Daniel