How to verify the cursor range of quick information?

Hello,

It sounds like you might not be passing the ideal textRange argument when opening the quick info session.  The API I'm mentioning is:

session.Open(view, textRange);

If you pass in the text range of your word (or whatever the target text is), then the quick info should stay active while the mouse is over that text range.

Thank you for your reply!

I confirm that I have passed the range parameter.This is the code I am calling in RequestSession.

I use the mouse to point to the first word 'using' in the editing area.

The value of 'context.Range' is 0 to 5 ,But the result is still the same.

In addition, I also found that if you do not assign a value to ‘session.Context’.

After the quick information window pops up, move the mouse outside the area and the window will not disappear. The window will not close until the left mouse button clicks on another area or the event is triggered again.

Are there other possible causes of this result?

protected override bool RequestSession(IEditorView view,object context)
{
    var session=new QuickInfoSession;

    session.Content=new MyView();

    session.Context=context;

    session.Open(view,context.Range);
}

Hello,

The other thing is that you want to make sure you do use a context object and that the context's Equals method is implemented.  This is done so that as other context examinations are being made, they can be compared to the one that showed the quick info.  If they are the same, then nothing is redisplayed.

Please see the "IntelliPromptQuickInfo" QuickStart in the Sample Browser's SyntaxEditor samples.  That has a nice implementation of quick info that behaves how you want and is a good starting point example.

Thanks for your answer!

After overriding the Equals method of the context, the mouse will disappear only when the mouse moves out of the specified area window.

However, if you want the window not to disappear when the mouse moves in the quick information window area, can you achieve this goal by overriding some methods on the premise of inheriting QuickInfoProviderBase? Or do I need to inherit IQuickInfoProvider to independently implement its regional verification logic?

Hello,

If you have the context set up properly like in the IntelliPrompt Quick Info QuickStart, the quick info tip shouldn't close if you are keeping the mouse anywhere over the target word's text range.

If you instead mean when the mouse moves over the actual quick info tip itself, I don't believe we support the mouse moving over the quick info tip at this time.  It will always close for that scenario, since the tips aren't currently intended to be clickable.

Thanks for your reply, my question has been resolved!

Sorry to ask again.

If I want to use the mouse to manipulate the content in the quick information window (for example, copy text or click), what is the best practice solution?

Hello,

Let me clarify the previous answer.  If you use a mouse hover to trigger the quick info to show, we then track the mouse movement and if it moves outside of the target text range used as context, it will close.  Thus you can't really move over the quick info tip in this scenario since the mouse movement is being watched.

That being said, if you programmatically open the quick info tip via something like in some of our samples' toolbar buttons, it will not watch the mouse and you could be able to click content in the quick info tip. For instance, executing this code will show the quick info for the caret location but will not close the quick info tip in response to the mouse location moving:

editor.ActiveView.IntelliPrompt.RequestQuickInfoSession()