Re: [Vala] Autocomplete with Vala

[Jan Van Buggenhout <chipzz safehex be>]

I think code completion (or is it syntax highlighting?) is being worked
on for anjuta.

On 2007-09-27 14:18:05 (-0400), Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net> wrote:
> 1) Is it possible to get this information from the native libraires? I
> know ctags does something like this, could we utilize information from
> a ctags database to provide the information needed?

A future release of glib should contain glib introspection, but this is
not available yet.

> 2) If the above is not realistic, how could we get autocompete
> information from binding/system libraries? Could we parse some
> generated documentation? Would it need to be developed with the
> generation of the bindings? Or would we need to have access to the
> source? (maybe generate an autocomplete DB from the source, but still

I think this would be the more feasible option, as this is available
now, and probably has richer information anyway. The files you'ld want
to parse are in /usr/share/vala/vapi (or /usr/local/share/vala/vapi),
and those should be quite parsable.
But now may not be the best time to start on this, as Juerg is working
on rewriting the C parser, and there may be subtle changes in the file
format.
Btw, you need those files when compiling a vala app anyway, so it's not
really "source". ;)

> requiring access to the source for initial generation) What about
> access to just the C source? Could we offer autocomplete support for
> binding to native libraries?
> 3) Would someone be willing to work with me to help implement
> something like this? I don't want to pour the time and energy into a
> partial implementation for monodevelop only to have it shunned by the
> Vala dev team. Furthermore, parsing the libraries is beyond me, I'll
> admit that without some help or guidance, I really wouldn't know what
> to do/where to start/how to proceed.

I may possibly be interested. ;)

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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