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Title: Auto completion is a grey square ?
Post by: kimh on November 05, 2020, 08:40:06 am
When I start typing, instead of popping up completions to choose from Code::Blocks pops up a grey square ???

Any help appreciate.
Title: Re: Auto completion is a grey square ?
Post by: Miguel Gimenez on November 05, 2020, 11:28:16 am
You don't report OS or C::B version, but my crystal ball says you are using MacOS, so look here: https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/tickets/1021/ (https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/tickets/1021/)

There are at least four posts about this issue, Search is your friend.
Title: Re: Auto completion is a grey square ?
Post by: kimh on November 05, 2020, 01:54:19 pm
Thanks for the link - turning off code completion worked to stop the grey box but of course I would like to have code completion.

I tried searching for both "grey box" and "grey box for code completion" and it showed no results?

BTW: I'm using Code::Blocks 17.12 and macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (sorry about that).

So are we saying its a bug in the latest Code::Blocks version? I don't see any option to update Code::Blocks in the menus?

Appreciate the response.

kim
Title: Re: Auto completion is a grey square ?
Post by: Miguel Gimenez on November 05, 2020, 02:23:33 pm
For example http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,24183.0.html (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,24183.0.html)

It is a known bug, but few people lurking here uses MacOS/knows enough about programming/want help to test or fix this bug and others.

The questions about the gray box in MacOS started about a month ago, and all OP use Catalina. I don't know details, but possibly Catalina changed something in wxPoupWindow, or the wxWidgets library used in Catalina has some issue with popups.

Recently, changes in wxWidgets' popup code in MSW broke C::B code completion in two unrelated points, one was solved skipping wx3.1.2 entirely and the other needed a patch for C::B.
Title: Re: Auto completion is a grey square ?
Post by: kimh on November 05, 2020, 02:36:35 pm
Appreciate your prompt and helpful response Miguel.