New little features in Descent

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Tue Aug 18 10:16:07 PDT 2009


Piotrek wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig pisze:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I ported some code and features from Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5 to Descent, 
>> which are already present in the Java Development Toolkit for Eclipse 
>> (JDT). These features are:
>>
>> - The popup is nicer when hovering a symbol, showing it's icon and 
>> allowing to open the ddoc view or the declaration.
>> - The popup also shows compile-time values of constant variables and 
>> enum members when available.
>> - The completion proposal list is nicer, showing the declaring type or 
>> module in grey (it's cleaner to the eyes). Also fields and methods are 
>> separated by ":" from their type.
>> - When hovering a method with ctrl hold, two options appear: "Open 
>> Declaration" and "Open Implementation". The first one just jumps to 
>> the method declaration. The second one opens a popup showing the 
>> classes or interfaces that implement that method, allowing you to 
>> quickly navigate to one of them. This is very useful when programming 
>> to interfaces.
>>
>> Here's a video showing all of these things:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy6-ppfq2pM
>>
>> Enjoy!
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> I don't know if it's a platform specific problem but I cannot update 
> Descent on my Ubuntu. I get this message:
> 
> An error occurred during provisioning.
>   Failed to prepare partial IU: [R]descent.core 0.5.6.20090817.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Piotrek

I can't enter dsource now. And yesterday I had to retry several times to 
upload the files. dsource is working very badly since yesterday, so that 
must be the problem. Please try again later. :)


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