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Re: [cdt-dev] Code Assist in 3.0M6 
Hi Emanuel,

I have heard of Qt giving us trouble in the past. It does have some pretty 
weird macros to make it look like they are adding concepts to the 
language. I'm surprised it is still a problem since we've made the parser 
more completed in 3.0, especially with it's handling of macros. This is 
something we'll look into. Raising a bug in bugzilla with an example of 
code that is returning bad results in a content assist would be most 
helpful.

Our strategy has a number of prongs to it. For things you are seeing with 
Qt, which is heavily C++, it is really based on the parser that we've 
upgraded in 3.0 to build a more complete AST. The parser also detects the 
context for the content assist and we use the semantic look-up built into 
the tree to find the possible completions. There are other strategies as 
well, such as using search for C functions, code templates, and pluggable 
API help.

The best way to help at this stage is to test and report bugs. If you feel 
brave enough to look at the code, check out the CCompletionProcessor2 
class which drives the show.

Cheers,
Doug

cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/09/2005 03:13:12 AM:

> Hi all,
> 
> i have tried to develop a QT ( http://www.trolltech.com ) 
> application using CDT 3.0M6 / Windows / QT 3.3.4 ? and I noticed 
> that the source completion didn?t really do much for me (It 
> recognized the classes, but no parameter hints, no constructor hints
> etc). While I know that the Code Assist is a work-in-progress, it 
> would be interesting to see why Code Assist worked quite solid for 
> me so far, but fails (tried the new and old Code Assist) so bad for 
> the QT headers. It may be related to their special header macros or 
something.
> 
> What is the CDT code assist strategy in a nutshell? If it cannot 
> parse a line in a header file, will it give up on the files, or are 
> there recovery points? If there is a design document for this 
> component, could someone kindly point me to it? I may be interested 
> in helping out, if the thing is not too obscure J
> 
> thanks for any help/clues on this,
> Emanuel
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