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digitalmars.D.announce - Visual D 0.3.30 released: Code completion from semantic analysis

reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Hi,

I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.

Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management 
and language services for the D programming language. It works with 
Visual Studio 2005-2010 and 11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

Highlights of this version 0.3.30 include

- syntax highlighting improvements regarding scope(guard), __ctfe, is, 
in and predefined versions
- added checkbox for options -gs and -property to project configuration
- debugger and build improvements
- experimental: code completion and tool tips from semantic analysis of 
source code

See http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory for a 
full list of changes.

The code completion from semantic analysis is not complete yet, but I 
think it can already be very helpful. You'll have to enable it 
explicitly in the D Language options due to it's experimental status.

The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

Have fun,
Rainer
Jan 07 2012
next sibling parent Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.

 Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and
 language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual
 Studio 2005-2010 and 11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

 Highlights of this version 0.3.30 include

 - syntax highlighting improvements regarding scope(guard), __ctfe, is, in
 and predefined versions
 - added checkbox for options -gs and -property to project configuration
 - debugger and build improvements
 - experimental: code completion and tool tips from semantic analysis of
 source code

 See http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory for a full
 list of changes.

 The code completion from semantic analysis is not complete yet, but I think
 it can already be very helpful. You'll have to enable it explicitly in the D
 Language options due to it's experimental status.

 The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

 Have fun,
 Rainer


Exciting! I just installed it, and I'll try it out with my latest project.
Jan 08 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Stephan <spam extrawurst.org> writes:
On 07.01.2012 15:41, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.

 Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management
 and language services for the D programming language. It works with
 Visual Studio 2005-2010 and 11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

 Highlights of this version 0.3.30 include

 - syntax highlighting improvements regarding scope(guard), __ctfe, is,
 in and predefined versions
 - added checkbox for options -gs and -property to project configuration
 - debugger and build improvements
 - experimental: code completion and tool tips from semantic analysis of
 source code

 See http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory for a
 full list of changes.

 The code completion from semantic analysis is not complete yet, but I
 think it can already be very helpful. You'll have to enable it
 explicitly in the D Language options due to it's experimental status.

 The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

 Have fun,
 Rainer



Wow thanks Rainer, this is a really cool release. the 'experimental' 
semantics are already awesome! now i want the completion-suggestions to 
tell me the types (method,member ..) with protection symbols ;)

Big Kudos !

S.
Jan 09 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> writes:
On 07-01-2012 15:41, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.

 Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management
 and language services for the D programming language. It works with
 Visual Studio 2005-2010 and 11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

 Highlights of this version 0.3.30 include

 - syntax highlighting improvements regarding scope(guard), __ctfe, is,
 in and predefined versions
 - added checkbox for options -gs and -property to project configuration
 - debugger and build improvements
 - experimental: code completion and tool tips from semantic analysis of
 source code

 See http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory for a
 full list of changes.

 The code completion from semantic analysis is not complete yet, but I
 think it can already be very helpful. You'll have to enable it
 explicitly in the D Language options due to it's experimental status.

 The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

 Have fun,
 Rainer


Great news!

How should the new experimental code completion be triggered, exactly?

- Alex
Jan 09 2012
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 09.01.2012 17:04, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

 On 07-01-2012 15:41, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.


 Great news!

 How should the new experimental code completion be triggered, exactly?

 - Alex


In "Options->Tools->Text Editor->D", there is a new sub page 
"Intellisense" with new options, including "Expansions from semantics" 
and "Show type of expression in tool tip". If you enable these, the 
first is triggered when hitting Ctrl+Space to show completions at the 
current insert position (most useful after a '.'), the latter will show 
the type of identifiers or complete expressions (if selected) in a tool tip.

There is some type inference regarding auto and some code 
interpretation, working on some complex stuff (classes, nested 
functions) but also still failing on simple things like switch statements.

Evaluation is currently as lazy as possible, i.e. even parsing is 
delayed until you request semantic information, but then cached for 
later use. So please excuse the current initial delay, I will probably 
move the parsing of imported files into a background thread.
Jan 09 2012
next sibling parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> writes:
On 09-01-2012 19:59, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 On 09.01.2012 17:04, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

 On 07-01-2012 15:41, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.


 Great news!

 How should the new experimental code completion be triggered, exactly?

 - Alex


 In "Options->Tools->Text Editor->D", there is a new sub page
 "Intellisense" with new options, including "Expansions from semantics"
 and "Show type of expression in tool tip". If you enable these, the
 first is triggered when hitting Ctrl+Space to show completions at the
 current insert position (most useful after a '.'), the latter will show
 the type of identifiers or complete expressions (if selected) in a tool
 tip.

 There is some type inference regarding auto and some code
 interpretation, working on some complex stuff (classes, nested
 functions) but also still failing on simple things like switch statements.

 Evaluation is currently as lazy as possible, i.e. even parsing is
 delayed until you request semantic information, but then cached for
 later use. So please excuse the current initial delay, I will probably
 move the parsing of imported files into a background thread.


Seems to work, thanks!

In the future, could we perhaps get an option to specify how 
aggressively code completion should be triggered? That is, manually (as 
it is now), when typing '.', or always (i.e. whenever you start typing)?

- Alex
Jan 09 2012
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 09.01.2012 20:41, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

 Seems to work, thanks!

 In the future, could we perhaps get an option to specify how
 aggressively code completion should be triggered? That is, manually (as
 it is now), when typing '.', or always (i.e. whenever you start typing)?

 - Alex


I've added it locally, but it seems it will need some optimizations. 
It'll be in the next release.
Jan 10 2012
prev sibling parent "Joel" <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:
[snip]


 In "Options->Tools->Text Editor->D", there is a new sub page


Or "Tools->Options->Text Editor->D->Intellisense" you mean. Tools 
and Options were around the wrong way.

[snip]
Jan 09 2012
prev sibling parent reply Lionello Lunesu <lio lunesu.remove.com> writes:
My favorite IDE for D! Keep up the good work!

By the way: I think you should released idl2d as a separate project ;)

On 7-1-2012 22:41, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 I'd like to announce the release of a new version of Visual D.

 Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management
 and language services for the D programming language. It works with
 Visual Studio 2005-2010 and 11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

 Highlights of this version 0.3.30 include

 - syntax highlighting improvements regarding scope(guard), __ctfe, is,
 in and predefined versions
 - added checkbox for options -gs and -property to project configuration
 - debugger and build improvements
 - experimental: code completion and tool tips from semantic analysis of
 source code

 See http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory for a
 full list of changes.

 The code completion from semantic analysis is not complete yet, but I
 think it can already be very helpful. You'll have to enable it
 explicitly in the D Language options due to it's experimental status.

 The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

 Have fun,
 Rainer
Jan 24 2012
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 24.01.2012 18:12, Lionello Lunesu wrote:

 My favorite IDE for D! Keep up the good work!


Thanks.


 By the way: I think you should released idl2d as a separate project ;)


 From your slides I guess you successfully used it for other IDL files 
than those from the Windows SDK and the Visual Studio SDK. Actually, I 
never tried it on anything else.

I thought of integrating it into Visual D similar to cpp2d, but did not 
get to it yet. Maybe I should add a precompiled executable to the 
download folder...
Jan 24 2012