Use KeyDown event to show memberlist

I replaced CTRL-SPACE with CTRL-DOWN in KeyDown event, and that worked. My guess is that SPACE key canceled the memberlist, since it is one of the keys memberlist responds to.
Setting e.Handled = True in KeyDown event handler does not fix that.
Maybe SyntaxEditor should ignore key stroke if e.Handled = True?
Steven

I just looked at the code and it should not complete or abort the member list if you set Handled to true. There might be some other area that is causing it to close.

Have you tried making a custom Action for Ctrl+Space and adding it to the SyntaxEditor.KeyActionMappings?

I cannot find the documentation and sample code for KeyActionMapping and how to associate it with EditAction. Would you point me to the right direction?

Here's a related issue: I want to insert "#ENDIF" if user types "#IF<RETURN>". I cannot use TRIGGER since it is a control character. I also found that RETURN key will not trigger KeyPress or KeyDown event. How can I do that? Should I use KeyActionMapping as well?

Steven

Actions are easy to make. Just create a class that inherits EditAction and override the Execute method. Then create an instance of your class at runtime and add it to the KeyActionMappings collection on SyntaxEditor.

We're going to be reworking how keypresses occur in a future version so that we can allow easier control of things like this.

Where do I put my custom EditAction? SyntaxEditor.KeyActionMappings.Add accepts a ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.KeyActionMapping object. How do I specify CTRL-SPACE?
Some kind of documentation would make it easier.
Steven

You do a line like this to create the KeyActionMapping and then add it to the collection. We will try and add an easier way of adding ShowMemberList functionality in the future.

[ 06-23-2004: Message edited by: Actipro Software Support ]

I put this code in Form.Load event: but VS wavelined "ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys.Ctrl" and gave following message:
Value of type 'Integer' cannot be converted to 'ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys'.

How come "ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys.Ctrl" is not of type "ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys"? I am confused, please help.

Steven Liu

That's odd. I wonder if it is because it was declared as an enum with a base type of uint. Try casting the value to "ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys" and it should work.

Type casting still gives the same error message.
Even simple statement like this gives error: I think you are right that UInt32 is the culprit. VB does not support UInt32 as an underlying type of enum. VB seems to give hints about this restriction:
1. when you type "Public Enum Test As ", the intellisense list only includes Byte/Integer/Long/Short.
2. if I define a variable as ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys, during debug session, the infotip for that variable shows "unsupported type".

OK, this is a tricky one but I finally found a workaround: i.e. parsing a string into ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys works fine.

Still, I strongly recommend changing the underlying type to Int32.

Steven Liu

Ok, we can change it for the future.

Yes please, and Thank you.
It is causing a number of issues such as:
1. cannot use "=" operator on ActiproSoftware.WinUICore.ModifierKeys type, have to use equals method.
2. KeyActionMappings.GetApplicableMappings(Keys.Control Or Keys.A) return nothing. It returns SelectAllAction in C#, which is correct.
These issues can be work around but it saves a lot of time if fixed.

Steven Liu

It's changed for the next release.

If you have some input methods, System will hook the "CTRL Space" first to switch input method. So it is a bad idea to deal with "CTRL Space". :)