suggestions

[me you]

why the ring vscode extension does not support suggestions? the ring QT function names are very long and it takes a long time to write. also the ring editor does not support this correctly.

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

Ring Notepad is just a Notepad (Not Complete IDE)

I remember writing it 2 days before Ring 1.0 release in 2016

It was just an example about using RingQt

Later, and along the time it's improved with more features including (Form Designer, REPL, Find In Files, Classes/Functions Lists, Styles & Modes, Files Tabs, The ability to run web applications from any folder, etc.)

It's open-source, written in Ring itself, if you need more features, You can implement it : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/tools/ringnotepad

Inside Ring Notepad, You can get the methods names in RingQt classes quickly by typing the class name then _

I know that it's not enough, but this could help in some situations

I don't have time to invest in Ring Notepad, because I am already investing my time in something better (Programming Without Coding Technology 2.0)

In PWCT 2.0 - We go forward in this direction as you can see in the next screen shot

All of the class methods appears including parameters & output

Also, everything is visual, the language is an open book that you can explore using components

No Syntax Errors, and you have the Time dimension to see the program step-by-step

And if you know Ring, you can write Ring code too, and it will be converted to the Steps Tree

Read about PWCT 2.0 : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/marketing/pwct

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Ilir]

Hello All,

I suggest to add suggestions at Ring VM level acting as a server. Whenever parser reaches text ending with & (because underscore can be integral part of the word including the end, but ampersand cannot - it comes before the word as return by item reference instruction), responds with all what can find, including parsed .ct files (if necessary).

Then each extension can work in automated (sending source code up to & by default) or manual mode where extension sends source code at request by the user typing & at the end of the word.

Greetings,
Ilir

[me you]

Hello Mahmoud and Ilir,

Mahmoud, thanks for making it clear. I hope Programming Without Coding Technology 2.0 will be successful.

Ilir thanks for your suggestion. i tried to do something like that myself. but i don't have enough experience for it.

can you watch this video. it is exactly about language server protocol from microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0p7tcUuJm0&ab_channel=MicrosoftReactor

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

do you have the experience to implement something like this?

[Ilir]

Hello All,

I don't have experience in doing this, but I know where to start. Haxe compiler can run in server mode (uses cache) to act as Haxe language server giving suggestions

https://github.com/vshaxe/haxe-language-server

From there, you can grasp how it can be implemented. If you are unfamiliar with the Haxe language (basically it is ActionScript with syntax suggar) I can help you, starting from next year because I have other things to do now. I planned to do something about this, but not before Ring2D (Debug&Deploy) which is planned earliest in 2024.

Greetings,

Ilir

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Ilir,

In fact, the Haxe solution implements the Language Server Protocol from Microsoft.

I think this is the way to go for anyone who thinks of providing code completion support for Ring in any IDE.

Best,

Mansour

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