Re: [cdt-dev] C hoverhelp / C completion collision

[Hoda Amer <hamer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,
It looks like I have not touched this
file after all. 
In CVS history it says that David Inglis
modified it on 15/12/2003 fixing bug # 48619

Regards,
Hoda Amer
Staff Software Engineer
Rational Software - IBM Software Group

Chris Moller <cmoller@xxxxxxxxxx>
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01/06/2004 12:34 PM

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Hoda Amer wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> This looks like something I have changed recently as I am currently
> working on code completion.
> Let me look into this and I will get back at you as soon as possible.

Thanks, Hoda,
cm

> Don't worry, I feel it is a small error that could be fixed easily.
> 
> Regards,
> Hoda Amer
> Staff Software Engineer
> Rational Software - IBM Software Group
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> Folks, we have a problem.
> 
> For several months now, I've been working on a C hoverhelp capability
> for CDT.  This process gets kicked off when
> DefaultCEditorTextHover.getHoverInfo() is invoked.  From there,
I've
> been kicking off my own CTextHoverContributorManager to look up the
help
> information and return it to getHoverInfo() for display.
> 
> The problem is that in the latest CDT, the exact place in the code
I've
> been using to hook CTextHoverContributorManager is now occupied by
> something called CCompletionContributorManager.
> 
> Completion and TextHover aren't the same thing.  Completion is
(I think)
> an active request by the user (banging ctrl-something, I think), whereas
> TextHover is just passively parking the pointer on a text string.
 Are
> both of these events really supposed to get to getHoverInfo()?  If
so,
> how does getHoverInfo() figure out why it was invoked and, accordingly,
> whether to run completion stuff or hoverhelp stuff?
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> Chris Moller
> Senior Hacker
> Red Hat, Inc.
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