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Richie



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:12 pm    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Hi Guys,

well first of all i just want to say that netbeans is brilliant - I've tried lots of different editors for the mac and most of them suck!

however i do have a slight issue with netbeans, something that was in my old windows based IDE that i miss.

there seems to be a flaw in code completion, take for instance the following example.

Code:
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');


now inside $mainframe we have a good many methods to work with

Code:

$mainframe->initialise();
$mainframe->triggerEvent();
$mainframe->route();
$mainframe->render();


amongst others, however netbeans seems to completely ignore the fact that $mainframe contains these

if i type

Code:
$main


and hit cmd + \
it successfully completes the code for me $mainframe

however if i then append -> on the end and hit cmd + \

Code:
$mainframe->


it tells me it has no suggestions, when clearly there should be?

this could of course not be flawed, and i could be missing some rather obvious check box i need to tick

can anyone help?

Thanks in Advance
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Peter Ford
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:00 am    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Richie wrote:
Quote:
Hi Guys,



well first of all i just want to say that netbeans is brilliant - I've tried lots of different editors for the mac and most of them suck!



however i do have a slight issue with netbeans, something that was in my old windows based IDE that i miss.



there seems to be a flaw in code completion, take for instance the following example.




Code:
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');





now inside $mainframe we have a good many options to work with




Code:


$mainframe->initialise();

$mainframe->triggerEvent();

$mainframe->route();

$mainframe->render();







amongst others, however netbeans seems to completely ignore the fact that $mainframe contains these



if i type




Code:
$main





and hit cmd + \

it successfully completes the code for me $mainframe



however if i then append -> on the end and hit cmd + \



it tells me it has no suggestions, when clearly there should be?



this could of course not be flawed, and i could be missing some rather obvious check box i need to tick



can anyone help?



Thanks in Advance


Remember that PHP is not a strongly-type like (like Java is) and so it's not
always clear what the type of a variable is.
There are a few tricks that Netbeans uses to work around this - I don't have the
reference to hand that explains them, but using Doc-Comments for method
parameters and member variables helps. I guess your factory pattern prevents you
from using

$mainframe = new Application('site')

or whatever - that would also let NetBeans work out what type $mainframe is.

Even with these suggestions there are still holes in NetBeans ability to guess
the type of an object - it doesn't do very well at suggestion methods from
superclasses, for example...

I suspect an enhancement request already exists for this - I might look it up an
vote for it.

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Tomas Mysik
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:12 am    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Hi,

Dne sobota 06 června 2009 19:12:41 Richie napsal(a):
Quote:
well first of all i just want to say that netbeans is brilliant - I've
tried lots of different editors for the mac and most of them suck!

thanks a lot for your positive feedback!

Quote:
Code:
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');

2 possibilities here:
1. Add PHPDoc comment [1] to the JFactory::getApplication method, or
2. Use "vdoc" template [2]

Option 1 is preferred, of course. If any of these options does not work for
you, please, repor a bug [3].

HTH,
Tomas
[1] http://www.phpdoc.org/,
http://manual.phpdoc.org/HTMLSmartyConverter/PHP/phpDocumentor/tutorial_tags.return.pkg.html
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a and
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in
[3] http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues
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Richie



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Posts: 3
PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi guys,

Much appreciate the replies.

Don't think I much fancy commenting the entire Joomla! Core.

However it's not that much of an issue. It's not as if I don't know them, I'm just really lazy.

It's still the best IDE I've tried. Couldn't get code completion to work at all.

Does net beans code completion support code snippets? I could add my commonly used ones there if it does (I'll take a look when I get home)

If not Ill manage

Thanks

Richie
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Tomas Mysik
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:37 pm    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Hi,

Dne pondělí 08 června 2009 10:41:34 Richie napsal(a):
Quote:
Much appreciate the replies.

you are welcome.

Quote:
Don't think I much fancy commenting the entire Joomla! Core.

Maybe you can submit a bug against Joomla ;)

Quote:
However it's not that much of an issue. It's not as if I don't know them,
I'm just really lazy.

Here, CTRL + k could help (complete word - it's not code completion!).

Quote:
It's still the best IDE I've tried. Couldn't get code completion to work at
all.

So, if you create a new PHP project and add 2 PHP classes - you don't have
them in code completion (invoked by CTRL + space)? If so, please try to use
the latest NetBeans version possible (currectly NB 6.7 RC) or a clean userdir
[1]. Please, file a new issue [2] if nothing helps.

Quote:
Does net beans code completion support code snippets? I could add my
commonly used ones there if it does (I'll take a look when I get home)

Yes, you can find them (and add new ones) in Tools > Options > Editor > Code
Templates (then choose PHP).

HTH,
Tomas
[1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqAlternateUserdir
[2] http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues
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zehdeh



Joined: 25 Aug 2009
Posts: 1
PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
is there a way to tell netbeans (like with macros or even a plugin) this:
Code:


myClass = Factory::Create("myClass");

// equal to

myClass = new myClass();



At work we have to use factory patterns quite often and code completion would be very nice to have.
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Tomas Mysik
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:58 am    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Hi,

Dne úterý 25 srpna 2009 21:17:28 zehdeh napsal(a):
Quote:
is there a way to tell netbeans (like with macros or even a plugin) this:
Code:
myClass = Factory::Create("myClass");

you likely want to use "vdoc" template. More information on our blog [1] [2].

Tomas
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in
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radek matous
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:55 pm    Post subject: flawed code completion?? Joomla 1.5 Reply with quote
Tomas Mysik wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

Dne úterý 25 srpna 2009 21:17:28 zehdeh napsal(a):

Quote:
is there a way to tell netbeans (like with macros or even a plugin) this:
Code:
myClass = Factory::Create("myClass");


you likely want to use "vdoc" template. More information on our blog [1] [2].

Tomas
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in

or if Factory is part of your project:

class Factory {
/**
* @return MyClass
*/
static function Create($name) {
}
}

Radek
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