Re: [gedit-list] GtkSourceCompletion

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote:
> The reason of this place iter is because we want it to place it at the 
> beggining of the word.
> In case you want the previous behaviour (cursor position) you just 
> need to pass NULL
> to the iter.
Also, positioning the popup otherwise (like centered in the view or on 
the screen) can be inconvenient because they might occlude where you 
type (for filtering). We might want to consider to allow some kind of 
filtering by typing but in some other widget than the view to avoid any 
typing there. I can imagine for instance if you have some doc open 
completion thing, that you don't want to really type a file path in the 
opened document, and have it removed when you complete it or something. 
We might therefore put the completion window in a separate, reusable 
class which can be used independent of the view (and then also 
positioned somewhere else).

Just some thoughts, the main goal is to get a first, clean API out, and 
features that are needed, but can be added iteratively will come later. 
So its good to consider all options, but we might postpone features.


Jesse
> Regards.
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Perriman <chuchiperriman gmail com 
> <mailto:chuchiperriman gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>            I'm looking gtksourcecompletion changes and I don't like
>     the "place"
>     iter:
>
>     gboolean gtk_source_completin_show (GtkSourceCompletion  *completion,
>                                        GList                *providers,
>                                        const gchar          *criteria,
>                                        GtkTextIter          *place);
>
>     I don't know why you want to pass a "place" iter. The place will
>     be the
>     "insert" iter in the most of cases and, if you would like to set the
>     position in other place, the usual places are centered on view,
>     centered
>     on screen, on top, etc, but (IMO) not another GtkTextIter.
>
>     What do you think? It will be cool if we can set the popup position
>     centered on screen or view :)  (to complete things like the
>     open/recent
>     documents, symbols "goto" etc.)
>
>     Regards,
>            Perriman
>
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