Code Completion / Suggestion - only after compile?

[roussec]

Code completion seems to currently only work after I compile the source once (or whenever I add something new that needs to be recognized). Is this intended behaviour? Is there a way to enable "on-demand" compiling?

Christian

[Urxae]

Actually, I think it parses after you save your source. It just happens that when you compile, you save your source automatically.
If you go to the symbols tab and right-click you can tell C::B to "reparse now", but I'm not sure if that works on non-saved files or not.

[rickg22]

Try checking the "always update cache" box in the code completion settings...

[roussec]

It works after saving, thanks Urxae. Reparse now does not work on non saved files and "always update" does not seem to help either. Is this intended or not yet implemented?

Christian

[rickg22]

i think parsing is only done on already saved files.

[mandrav]

Parsing is performed on saved files only.
When code-completion is invoked, the local scope is also parsed for local variables (no need to be saved - it reads directly from the active editor).
And the "always update cache" option refers to the cache and means to always update the cache (physically, on disk) when the project is closed, regardless if it thinks it hasn't changed (the cache).

Yiannis.

[rickg22]

perhaps we need to rephrase that setting...

programmers like to know what's happening behind curtains. And "only when necessary" isn't very descriptive

[mandrav]

And "only when necessary" isn't very descriptive

You 're referring to?

Yiannis.

[roussec]

Why is it not parsed "on-line" like in the Visual C++ IDE? Where is the problem?

[rickg22]

And "only when necessary" isn't very descriptive

You 're referring to?

Yiannis.

The tooltip text in the codecompletion settings. Ah, nevermind.