future plans

[Mo DeJong]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Timothee Besset wrote:

> When can we expect an update to SN?

What kind of "update" were you looking for? We are working on
getting a snapshot of 5.0 out sometime soon, but that will
not even be alpha quality. It would be a "hackers only"
pre-release.

> The most important feature (imo) would be auto-completion.
> Auto-completion of symbols, listing the members when accessing a struct 
> with -> or .

That would be neat. Are you willing to work on implementing
this feature?

> Displaying the definition of the functions in a tooltip box when the 
> mouse comes over them

This should be trivial, perhaps a day or two to implement
and test.

> Displaying possible commentaries that are typed before struct 
> definitions or function definitons

Not sure what you mean by this.

> Maybe even a window that would sit somewhere on your workspade and 
> update to the class definition or inheritance of the class you are 
> working in (well yeah, stuff you can get already, but it's not 
> implemented in a very efficient way)

Is it so hard to switch to the Hier window or the class viewer?

> I'm also lacking some docs or tips, maybe some of the stuff I want is 
> there already.
> The behaviour of the windows is weird. If the file as been edited it 
> would open a new window, but if not it would change the edit view. I 
> didn't find the shortcuts to switch between editor views (like Alt+TAB 
> on MSVC).
> I'm free to develop on win32 or linux. I prefer linux because on win98 
> my app kills the GDI resources and I have to reboot quite often. But I'm 
> strongly tempted to go back to win32 cause I don't feel as efficient 
> with sourcenav as I can be with MSDev

Well, feelings are a tricky thing. They might be good or they
might have nothing to do with reality. When it comes to a GUI,
folks start to get "bad feelings" over little things like
a window taking too long to redraw. Don't forget that you
do have the source, you can adapt it to better suite your
"feelings". When was the last time you were able to reprogram
MSDev to get around something you did not like?

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc