Friday August 08, 2008
Friday August 08, 2008
Tutorial for Editor Code Completion API
When you press Ctrl-Space in the IDE, a code completion box pops up with words that you can use to complete the word under the curser. Here's a new tutorial that explains how you can create code completion functionality for your own MIME types or for one of the existing ones:
NetBeans Code Completion Tutorial
The tutorial replaces an older one. It's much better because it focuses specifically on code completion, not on extraneous stuff like web service clients and Options window integrations. In the end, you'll have a simple code completion box in HTML files, listing countries that can be selected and inserted into the editor:
The tutorial applies to NetBeans IDE 6.0 and upwards. It also contains a link to a plugin that provides the sources of the sample, in case you get stuck.
Aug 08 2008, 08:24:21 AM PDT Permalink
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