XIDE "Goto definition: xxxx"

Karl-Heinz · Post by **Karl-Heinz** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 10:56 am

Hi Chris,

i want to jump to a *static* function but the PopUp Menu doesn´t offer an item like "Goto definition: __IamStatic". To reproduce this behaviour right click on "__IamStatic" inside the Test() function.

Another problem is the behaviour of the alt+right and alt+left keys. Just click on "Test" inside the start(). Now press alt+right. The cursor jumps correctly to the beginning of "FUNCTION Test", but when i unpress the alt key a char is inserted before "F". The same happens when i press now alt+left. The cursor jumps back to the start() "Test" but when i unpress the alt key a char is inserted.

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FUNCTION Start( ) AS VOID
	
	? Test()
	
RETURN 


FUNCTION Test() AS INT 

	RETURN __IamStatic() 


STATIC FUNCTION __IamStatic()  AS INT

	RETURN 1

regards
Karl-Heinz

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:05 pm

Karl-Heinz,
FTR, issue 1 yes, i see this, too.
But für #2, no, no erroneous chars are inserted, whatever i try.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:57 pm

Hi Karl-Heinz,

The problem with goto definition, is that because the function is declared static, then it becomes a member of a special different class for holding functions, it does not belong to the standard "functions" class, so the editor cannot find it in the dll/exe. Alt+Right should find it though, because it also does a regular text search "by name".

Problem with intellisense in XIDE is that it was originally written for vulcan and vulcan was much different to X#, also did not support many of the new language features that X# supports. I need to rewrite this from the beginning to make it work properly again at some point, but available time is always the big problem..

About the issue with printing chars with Alt+keys, I think it must be a feature in your PC, similar to using Alt + Num pad to "type" a specific character (for example Alt + 3,2 types a space). Doesn't the same thing happen if you press the same key combinations in notepad?

Karl-Heinz · Post by **Karl-Heinz** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:08 pm

very strange,

attached is a image that shows the result. What happens when you enter in the XIDE Editor

alt+0+9+7 ?

no matter what the current postion is "a" is added correctly, but always at the position 1,1. Is this behaviour normal ? Doing the same in notepad adds "a" to the current position.

regards
Karl-Heinz

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:14 pm

a is inserted - but always at the actual cursorposition

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:38 pm

Hi Karl-Heinz,

I think you have NumLock disabled. In this mode, in some systems/keywords, Alt+Num7 means home, Alt+Num9 means page up etc.

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:36 pm

Hi Chris,
with Numlock off i can reproduce K-H behaviour.
Wouldn't have thought, that the digits get processed as long as ALT is held - cool find!

Karl-Heinz · Post by **Karl-Heinz** » Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:50 pm

Hi Chris,

in Notepad it doesn´t matter if the numpad is active or not. In both cases alt+0+9+7 inserts "a" at the current position. And this is indeed also possible in XIDE, but only if the numpad is active.

next week i´ll check the alt+right and alt+left behaviour on another machine.

regards
Karl-Heinz

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