Hi Narrinder,
"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."
What this means is that it parses the typed code and collects the properties
that are written in the code. If you haven’t typed the property into the method
editor yet then the method editor won't suggest it, regardless of where the
property came from.
-Tim
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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
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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
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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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