[Geany-devel] Calltip and autocomplete interaction

[Lex Trotman]

Well IIRC thats almost how it works now, I have just described it. in
a formal way.  I'm not suggesting that the implementation needs to be
a state machine, but it makes describing it without a LOT of words
easy.
Cheers
Lex

2009/8/8 Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de>:
> Lex Trotman schrieb:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I agree, I'm not sure its a big problem, but then again if the calltip
>> was covering something I needed to read whilst typing the parameter
>> I'd be annoyed so..
>>
>> I suggest that the behavior from the user point of view should follow
>> a simple state machine:
>>
>> Three states, not displayed, displayed, hidden
>>
>> State not displayed
>>
>> on ( show calltip and go to state displayed
>> on calltip keybinding show calltip go to state displayed
>>
>> State displayed
>>
>> on autocomplete replace calltip with autocomplete
>> on autocomplete removed (by acceptance or dismissal or mismatch) show
>> calltip
>> on ) hide calltip and go to state not displayed
>> on user dismissal of calltip (down arrow or esc) hide calltip and go
>> to state hidden
>>
>> State hidden
>>
>> on autocomplete show autocomplete
>> on autocomplete removed do not show calltip
>> on ) go to state not displayed
>> on show calltip keybinding show calltip go to state displayed
>>
>> What this is doing is that if the user dismisses the calltip it stays
>> dismissed until the user asks for it again, but if non-user action
>> removes the calltip (like Geany displaying autocomplete) then it is
>> re-displayed as soon as possible.
>>
>> I havn't had time to look at how different this is to the current code.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>
> That sounds like complicating stuff necessarily to me.
>
> Best regards.
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