quick Intellisense

Keypress triggers are nice when you want a specific character such as a "." to activate a list but only within a certain lexical state. They make it easy to handle such situations.

However as you came up with, you can also use the KeyTyped event and put code in there to show the member list. If you are going to be popping up a list for every alpha character, then that is probably the better way to go.

Hi and thanks for the reply,

seems that you may have fun in answering my question :-)
For sure I do not want to have a list pop up whenever I press a single alpha character.

I just want an intelliprompt to pop up whenever a word begins.
For sure it may be easier to act on a . because you already know what you are looking for.

But as you know your code in detail, maybe you can tell me what event could be nice to 'sit on' when the user begins a new word. For example, how would I check in the KeyTyped function if the character prior to my typed key was a space, a tab, a ( .. I think that could be an easy solution to have an intelliprompt just at the beginning of a word.

And another question about the pricing, UIStudio and SyntaxEditor include source? I haven't found info about that.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Well you can always look at the Token that you are currently on. If you set up identifier tokens like we do in our language defs, you can tell if you are at the beginning of an IdentifierToken and if so, you know you're at the beginning of a word. That's probably the easiest.

Since at KeyTyped time, the character is already inserted, you probably want to do something like editor.Document.Tokens.GetTokenAtOffset(editor.Caret.Offset - 1) and then see if the Token is an IdentifierToken and starts at the previous offset. If so you know you're at a new word.

All the pricing is available here and we don't currently offer source:
http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Purchase/DotNet/Default.aspx