Issue 66985

Summary:	Auto complete in Basic IDE
Product:	App Dev	Reporter:	avantman42 <russ>
Component:	api	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	ACCEPTED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	bugs-openoffice, cno, issues, kozodaevroman, mr_smyle, pagalmes.lists
Version:	3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description avantman42 2006-07-04 09:02:54 UTC

I would like to request an auto-complete function in the Basic IDE, similar to
that found in Delphi, VBA, etc. In these environments, the user types something, eg

ThisComponent.

and either waits, or presses a key combination like CTRL-SPACE, and is presented
with a list of possible options. Microsoft calls this Intellisense, and there
are several screenshots of it being used here:
http://www.design-drawing.com/visio/kgvbaide.htm

I think the ability to see parameters, properties/methods, etc as you are typing
a macro will make it easier to write macros, especially for power users, as
opposed to developers.

Comment 1 jsc 2006-07-04 12:45:06 UTC

JSC -> AB: what's your opinion, i would say not possible in the near future

Comment 2 ab 2006-07-18 09:37:40 UTC

ab->jsc: I agree. The problem here is that due to the weak (UNO related) 
typing in Basic in many situations type information is missing. -> OOo Later

Comment 3 mci 2007-04-23 14:30:02 UTC

*** Issue 76506 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 4 mci 2007-04-23 14:30:10 UTC

*** Issue 76506 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 5 kpalagin 2008-01-29 20:22:20 UTC

Andreas,
do you have any plans for this issue?
Thanks a lot for your attention.
WBR,
KP.

Comment 6 cno 2008-02-03 09:16:35 UTC

@ kpalagin: I think a better question is, to ask how realistic it is that this
can be implemented. If you look at the cause (see comment ab Jul 18 2006) IMO
it's a pretty lot of work, if doable at all.
Don't get me wrong: I would be happy if it were implemented :-)

Comment 7 ab 2008-02-04 08:43:04 UTC

ab->kpalagin: Currently there are no plans. The main problem is still the same
(missing static type information in many situation). I don't see that the we would
get a result that justifies the effort.

Comment 8 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:27:30 UTC

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".

Comment 9 oooforum (fr) 2018-01-09 17:04:58 UTC

*** Issue 67489 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 10 oooforum (fr) 2018-01-09 17:08:08 UTC

*** Issue 15511 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***