On 26/09/2006, at 4:50 AM, Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:
I am writing a RBscript text editor for one of my apps. I have
added syntax highlighting, such that is now looks like the RB IDE.
Now I want to add a tooltips feature that displays the API for my
exposed context classes.
Just one suggestion to complicate your life, based on my very
positive experiences with Whole Tomato Software's "Visual Assist" for
Visual Studio:
Don't fall into the trap of making it require words in the right order.
Even consider synonym indexing.
eg: someone types 'Count' - it should be able to find the actual
method(s) GetCount, GetNumItems, CountItems, Count or whatever.
Just breaking at word/fragment boundaries would be enough and your
users will forever love you for your intelligent software.
Lookup should be timer-based so it doesn't start doing things until
there is a sufficient pause, say about quarter of a second. (You
could do a really cool adaptive algorithm based on average speed of
letters typed within words but it would be a lot more work.)
I call this the "Filemaker Lesson". Once someone has experienced the
word-based searches of FileMaker they are forever spoiled for so
called database searches.
I suppose someone ten years younger would possibly call it the Google
Lesson ;-)
regards
Andy
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