Re: Cursor position in pixels

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:46:04 -0500, Eric Ludlam <eludlam@mathworks.com>  
wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by
>
>   "emacs support for a language and want to display suggestions for
>    the user in a pop up frame."
>
> but it could be that if you add support for semantic
> (cedet.sf.net/semantic.shtml), even if you don't use the full parser
> architecture, you could use the popup tooltip like support built into
> that framework without having to figure out pixel positions.
> Cedet/Semantic tries to provide smart completions at idle time.  If
> that's what you are looking to do, it may be a little easier, plus you
> would get a host of other useful features at the same time.

Here's a screenshot of what I have in mind:

	http://www.monodevelop.com/images/screenshots/macosx.jpg

So I'd like to popup a small frame listing the possible completions. As  
the user types more characters, the list is narrowed down to show the  
remaining completions. If I go up/down in the list then a short  
description of the highlighted item is shown immediately in a tooltip. If  
the user presses F1 then he's taken to the complete documentation of the  
item (e.g. in a browser).

I don't think Semantic provides the framework for all this, but correct me  
if I'm wrong.

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