<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 17-aug-2007, at 19:00, Joachim Mårtensson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hello, everyone.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I have written a more Xcode like completion extension for tm_dialog. My</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">guess is that this is of interrest to more people than me. The code has</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">not been commited yet, but I have made a screencast to show of some of the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">functionallity.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[ <A href="http://mail.mac.se/joachimm/TextMateCodeCompletionEnhancements.mov">http://mail.mac.se/joachimm/TextMateCodeCompletionEnhancements.mov</A> ]</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">, right now I am looking for suggestions for the programmatic and user</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">interface.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Wow, this looks so promising. I can't wait to start using it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Without mimicking Xcode too much, I think the user interface could improve.</DIV><DIV>My suggestions:</DIV><DIV>a. the bounding box of the dialog popup should be as small as possible, i.e. decrease the height of the window as the number of completions shrink.</DIV><DIV>b. the dialog popup window could be slightly transparent and would be nice if it would fade in.</DIV><DIV>c. the arguments to a function (the parts of the snippet that should be filled in by the user) could have a different style (italic?) or colour (greyish?) from the non-volatile parts of the function (the function name, the parentheses, etc)</DIV><DIV>d. the addition of a little icon in front of the completion, indicating whether it is a C function, a objective-C method, a constant, a class, etc. (I know this sooo xcode, but I think it's very useful).<BR><DIV> <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; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV>Finally: when does this completion window pop up? When you stop typing for a 0.8 seconds (and if *has* available completions)? Or do you have to invoke it with a special key combo?</DIV><DIV>I would very much like the former one, combined with the disappearance of the completion window if no key is pressed in the following 2 seconds. (plus a way to customize these time preferences or disable the automatic popup behavior).<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>best regards</DIV><DIV>dirk</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------</DIV><DIV>Dirk van Oosterbosch</DIV><DIV>de Wittenstraat 225</DIV><DIV>1052 AT Amsterdam</DIV><DIV>the Netherlands</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><A href="http://labs.ixopusada.com">http://labs.ixopusada.com</A></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>