Basic IntelliPrompt support for Python

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Posted 19 years ago by Christopher Stoy - Software Engineer, Red Storm Entertainment
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Hello all,

I've just started working with SyntaxEditor and really want to get the IntelliPrompt feature working. I have a IronPython embedded in my C# app to provide a scripting service and want to use SyntaxEditor to allow users the ability to edit these scripts. I expose various functions from my C# code into IronPython and would like to provide IntelliPrompt support for it.

My problem is I can't seem to find any examples on how to do this. The C# examples seem to use the Addons.CSharp.CSharpSyntaxLanguage , but that doesn't help me since I'm using Python. I would like to have something like this:

In Python, I would:

import sys

And when I type:
sys.

I want to see what is available in the sys module.

I know this may seem like a basic question, but I haven't had much luck finding how to do this in the lastest ScriptEditor release (4.0).

Any hints/pointers would be appreciated.

Chris.

Chris Stoy Software Engineer Red Storm Entertainment chris.stoy@redstorm.com

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Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Chris,

We've gotten this sort of question a lot. :) Let me start off by saying that it is not easy at all to provide proper IntelliPrompt functionality for a full blown language.

In fact, in our C# implementation in the .NET Languages Add-on, I believe there are 40,000+ lines of code needed to achieve it.

Right now we're working on a VB.NET implementation for the add-on as well and that is taking us a while (especially since we're also doing other dev and support).

This page does a good job of explaining how we go about implementing these sort of features for C#:
http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/SyntaxEditor/Addons/DotNet/ImplementationDetails.aspx

The "Simple" language sample in the sample project goes about showing a very basic implementation of these sort of features for a language. That is a good starting point. But for a full-blown language like C#, the grammar is many many times bigger and there's a lot of code needed for proper context resolution.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v25.1.0) was released 20 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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