Overwrite quick info description

Hi Tobias,

Yes, to alter the quick info, you can do these steps:

• Unregister the PythonQuickInfoProvider service from the syntax language.
• Create a new class MyQuickInfoProvider that inherits PythonQuickInfoProvider.
• Override its OnSessionOpening method and update the session.Content property appropriately.  It should be a TextBlock.
• Register MyQuickInfoProvider as a service on the syntax language.

Hi,

thanks for the help, but I just realized this only changes the tooltip when I move the mouse in the editor.

How can I change the tooltip for intelli prompt sessions as well? I already have a class that inherits from PythonCompletionProvider, but I cannot find the corresponding text block. The session has a list of all items, but I don't want to go over all of them each time.

I also tried to override PythonParameterInfoProvider, but it looks like this is used for something else.

Hello,

Completion providers have an OnSessionOpening method that you can override and examine the session.Items.  Each item is an ICompletionItem implementation that has a DescriptionProvider property on it.  The IContentProvider returned by that property builds the description tip content when one is needed.  Maybe wrap our default with a custom IContentProvider that removes the filenames.

Parameter info providers (used for invocation help) also have an OnSessionOpening method that you can override and can examine the session.Items.  Each item is an ISignatureItem implementation that has a ContentProvider property on it, that is the same concept as the ICompletionItem.DescriptionProvider.