[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: CDT 4.0 Content Assist not working

[Anton Leherbauer <anton.leherbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Holger Berndt wrote:
> I am a new Eclipse/CDT user, and am still having some problems. The
> most annoying one is that I was not yet able to get the content assist
> working. Basically, I have the very same problems as Hauke described in
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg11650.html
> (unfortunately, that post didn't get an answer)
>
> Basically, very simple things like completion for "main()" or
> "for"-loops work. On the other hand, completion does not work for any
> of my own classes whose headers I included, nor does it work for
> functions of the standard library. It looks like the assist is not
> parsing the included header files at all, even though they are in the
> include path.
>
> The documentation says something about selectable scopes with a radio
> button, but I don't have that button in CDT 4.0.
>
> Can anybody point me into the right direction to get content assist
> working? Anything I could be looking for in log files?
>
> Best regards,
> Holger

There is a common pitfall which you might check first:

If you type a new source file and include a header the first time,
you need to save the file, before the include file is indexed.
Before that, content assist won't suggest anything from the included file.
The reason is that by default the indexer only indexes headers which are 
actually included by a source file. You can change this by enabling the 
option "Index all files" either in the preferences (C/C++ > Indexer) or
in the project properties (C/C++ General > Indexer).

If this does not help, I suggest to file a bug at
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=CDT
and attach your project if possible.

Thanks,
Toni
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Anton Leherbauer
Wind River CDT Team, Austria