Re: Ok here is a wild idea that I came up with last night

Hmmm...  MS Visual C++ does this, Visual Basic does this, so its not
all that wild of an idea...

Of course, they do it WITHOUT pressing F4, which REALLY ANNOYS ME,
because here I'll be typing along merrily, and then suddenly without
a chance to react, I'll need to select something from a popup listbox.

So, if you find a way to do this, please make sure you have to hit
F4 :)



"Eric N. Wilson" <doulos1@home.com> wrote:
>
> Hans and company,
>
> I was thinking that it would be absolutely fabulous if when you do a
>  callp
> or eval function call (not to mention the CF spec) that you could
>  prompt for
> the parameters for the prototyped function (F4 prompting). This woul
> require some sort of prepass in SEU to build the function list from
>  the
> /Copy and internal prototypes. You would display the variable names,
>  types,
> const'd ness, etc and have an input field for the variable name in
>  your
> function (which could be prompted for too, ideally showing only thos
>  fields
> that match the criteria).
>
> Now I know that this would not work for things called by procedure
>  pointers
> (or it would most likely be ALOT of work) but an 90% solution (in mo
>  cases
> near 100%) is better than nothing. Right now I do a compile after I
>  enter
> all my /Copys and External Data Structures etc. Then work from the
>  compile
> listing for the variables/functions/parameters etc.
>
> Just a thought!
>
> ______________________________________________
> Eric N. Wilson
> President
> Doulos Software & Computer Services
> 2913 N Alder St
> Tacoma WA 98407
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