<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Dirk van Oosterbosch, IR labs wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>As the final feature to list I also want to mention that I would be a fan of *SubWordCompletion*. (This used to be a feature of Xcode, but they removed it, unfortunately). With SubWordCompletion I mean that it can also complete on *parts* of completion terms, without leaving the completion modus, with the possibility to narrow down on the completion term fast. An example:</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">You're looking for NSNumberFormatterRoundDown.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>Then typing `NSNum ⇥ F ⇥ R ⇥ D ⇥` should be enough to make the complete NSNumberFormatterRoundDown.</DIV><DIV>This would the breakdown of the steps in the interface:</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">1. You type NSNum</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">It completes to NSNumber</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">2. type ⇥</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">It stays in completion mode, showing you all possible continuations of NSNumber... (Hit ⇥ ag</SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">ain or hit enter to exit completion mode and use NSNumber)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">3. type F</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>it completes to NSNumberFormatter</DIV><DIV>4. type ⇥</DIV><DIV>you see NSNumberFormatter... and still stays in completion mode</DIV><DIV>5. type R</DIV><DIV>it completes to NSNumberFormatterRound</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">6. type ⇥</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">you see the 9 possible endings of NSNumberFormatterRound...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>7. type D</DIV><DIV>it completes to NSNumberFormatterRoundDown</DIV><DIV>8. type ⇥</DIV><DIV>presto!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT>I recognize that most of these features will not be simple to implement, but please forgive me for being an idealist instead of a pragmatist.<DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>dirk</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>This can't work with tm_dialog--menu as it currently exists.</DIV><DIV>However!</DIV><DIV>all the tm_dialog source code is in the repo. I have no idea, but</DIV><DIV>could you extend the tm_dialog --menu to catch keystrokes and pass them back?</DIV><DIV>If so, then we could implement this functionality.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OR</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We could use a custom nib inside of tm_dialog instead of the --menu</DIV><DIV>I think we could even use Allan's borderless panel subclass.</DIV><DIV>Then it would look a lot more like the normal code completion thing that every other cocoa app uses.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There have been a bunch of changes to tm_dialog lately, anyone know how doable this is?</DIV><DIV>I know there's something to keep the nib open while sending messages to and from it now.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <I>design</I><B>42</B> — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg</DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>