Tim,
Thanks, but I actually have that article open in a browser window and had
referred to it prior to posting. It didn't answer my specific question that I
posted about with regards to auto-complete for 4D commands that return objects.
Can you or anybody else advise on that specific point? Thanks.
Regards,
Narinder Chandi,
ToolBox Systems Ltd.
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From: Timothy Penner <tpen...@4d.com>
Date: Friday, 2 August 2019 at 17:51
To: 4D Tech Mailing List <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
Cc: Narinder Chandi <4dtechmailingl...@toolbox.uk.com>
Subject: RE: No Object Auto-Completion for 4D Commands?
Hello,
> What gives? Tell me I made a basic mistake somewhere?!
Here is the blog post regarding the feature:
https://blog.4d.com/autocomplete-function-expanded-to-object-attributes
TL/DR - Each time you open a method, or edit some code, the method editor
collects the attributes used in your code and proposes them in the list of
suggestions.
-Tim
Timothy Penner
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From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> On Behalf Of Narinder Chandi
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Sent: Friday, August 02, 2019 9:42 AM
To: 4D Tech Mailing List <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
Cc: Narinder Chandi <4dtechmailingl...@toolbox.uk.com>
Subject: No Object Auto-Completion for 4D Commands?
So, I'm in the final phase of a v15 to v17.2 upgrade and
eliminating/replacing all the remaining _o_ prefixed obsolete 4D commands. I
came across some Method Editor behaviour that I totally didn't expect... btw,
this is my very first foray into using C_OBJECT and 4D commands that return
objects!
Let me illustrate with the following very simple example:
C_OBJECT($object)
$object:=Path to object(Get 4D folder)
Now, when I type $object into the Method Editor, I expected the
auto-completion to show me available object properties such as parentFolder,
name and extension but it didn't. I then modified the code to:
$object:=New object
$object:=Path to object(Get 4D folder)
But that didn't yield anything more - I had assumed in the first example
that the 4D command would implicitly initialise the object internally. So, I
have a couple questions a this point:
* for 4D commands that return an object is object initialisation implicit
or must "New object" always be called first?
* is it the case that there is actually no auto-completion for 4D Commands
that return objects? That would be a real disappointment :((
Note that I also tested the above in a completely new 4D v17 database just
in case there was something up with a converted database. I also checked that
the auto-complete settings in Preferences were setup correctly - they are
identical in both the converted v17 and new v17 databases.
I also tested this example:
C_OBJECT($object1)
C_OBJECT($object2)
$object1:=New object
$object1:=Path to object(Get 4D folder)
$object2:=New object
$object2.foo:="foo"
$object2.bar:="bar"
In this case I get auto-completion of "object1.foo" as well as
"object2.foo" which is really not what I would expect at all! It seems to me
that the Method Editor is wholly indiscriminate about what the auto-completion
options are!
What gives? Tell me I made a basic mistake somewhere?!
Regards,
Narinder Chandi,
ToolBox Systems Ltd.
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