Code Snippet missing feature?

Posted 18 years ago by Jason Whitted - Owner, Etalisoft, LLC

Since we have access to a CodeSnippetFolderCollection, it seems that we should be able to use Code Snippets from unrelated CodeSnippetFolders; however, the method SyntaxEditor.IntelliPrompt.CodeSnippets.ShowInsertSnippetPopup only takes a single CodeSnippetFolder object as a parameter.

It would be desirable to have the a ShowInsertSnippetPopup overload like:

public bool ShowInsertSnippetPopup(int offset, string labelText, CodeSnippetFolderCollection folders, CodeSnippetType type)
{
    ...
}

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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Actually you should be able to do that pretty easily by creating a CodeSnippetFolder using the name-only constructor. Don't specify a path for the root folder. Then just add each folder in your collection to the root folder's ChildFolders. That way you'll have one root folder with all your child folders in it.

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Posted 18 years ago by Jason Whitted - Owner, Etalisoft, LLC

Perfect! Didn't even think about that. Thanks a lot.

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

We've added an overload to IntelliPromptCodeSnippets.ShowInsertSnippetPopup that accepts a CodeSnippetFolderCollection in the next maintenance release.

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Posted 18 years ago by tobias weltner

The workaround works great!
One suggestion: it would be really cool to be able to use different icons for the folders in the snippet popup.
This way it would be easier to differentiate between let's say user snippets and default snippets...

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Actually we already have that. :) There is an ImageIndex property on both CodeSnippet and CodeSnippetFolder. They go with the IntelliPrompt.CodeSnippets.ImageList property to allow you to add other images for them.

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Posted 18 years ago by tobias weltner

cool!
Now there's only one problem left:
when I do combine two folder sources as outlined above and both sources contain a subfolder with the same name, I get two folders in the popup menu with the same name. Am I doing something wrong, or is this the way it works right now...?

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Good idea, we've added a CodeSnippetFolder.Merge method for the next maintenance release that allows you to merge two CodeSnippetFolders together, optionally including duplicate-named items.

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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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