SyntaxEditor 4.0 Code Snippet Enhancement Question

As long as it doesn't break existing code I vote for the on-demand snippet loading. I don't think it will cause any performance issues and it should definitely save on memory especially if you have a lot of large snippets.

The only thing it would break is if after loading a CodeSnippet from a file or XmlDocument loading snippets in a CodeSnippetFolder from a path, you had code that was accessing the non-header properties of the loaded code snippets. But in that case you just use a new overload for the methods like the CodeSnippetFolder constructor, Refresh method, and CodeSnippet.LoadFromXml and you can have it behave the v3.1 way. I would think most people wouldn't have any sort of post-load code and would want to save on memory by default.

One other note is that if you pass a header-only code snippet to be activated, it will internally make a new CodeSnippet instance that is used for IntelliPrompt. It will also copy the ImageIndex and Tag properties to the new instance. But any other custom ones you make won't be copied in case you pass a class that inherits CodeSnippet with custom properties. However to work around that you could just ensure the custom code snippet is fully loaded before calling Activate and that solves that problem.