VisualD's Intellisense not workign with gtk

[Johnson Jones via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 07:27:54 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 04.08.2017 04:31, Johnson Jones wrote:
>> On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 01:33:53 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 06:30:07 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13.07.2017 01:55, FoxyBrown wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> It works for me, but takes a couple of seconds to digest all 
>>>> the gtk files. There is no completion before that finishes. 
>>>> I've tried it with a file looking like this:
>>>>
>>>> module gtkAll;
>>>>
>>>> public import gtk.AboutDialog;
>>>> public import gtk.AccelGroup;
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>     [...]
>>>> ...
>>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>> The project built JSON file only covers the files actually 
>>>> in the project. You can create a full JSON file with the 
>>>> help of rdmd, e.g.
>>>>
>>>> rdmd -X gtkd\gtkAll.d
>>>>
>>>> That will likely fail due to object file generation or link 
>>>> errors, but should still build the JSON file.
>>>
>>> What do I do with the json file when it is created? Where 
>>> does it go? I'd like to get intellisense to work with gtkD. I 
>>> tried adding the gtkD but it locked up VS. The files are 
>>> 10MB+. There are two files.
>>>
>>> gtkD_all.exe.json
>>> gtkD_all.json
>>>
>>> How do I tell visual D to look in those files to use for 
>>> intellisense?
>>>
>>> Visual D has a "Build Phobos Browse Info". Is that 
>>> essentially what it does but on the phobos src directory?
>> 
>> I put the files in a dir and told that under the JSON edit box 
>> in properties in visual D/studio and eventually it seems that 
>> intelligent started working. (it didn't work at first but 
>> after a few hours I noticed that I was getting intellisense, 
>> not sure if that is what did it or something else I might have 
>> fiddled with).
>> 
>> How does Visual D use those files? Does the file name have 
>> anything to do with it or does it just load any files inside 
>> the dir and then search the json for a match?
>
> Yes, more or less the latter. You can also browse the loaded 
> JSON files in the "Object Browser" window.

It seems to be working. I haven't done any thorough testing but 
what I have noticed is that it seems to list any functions that 
match rather than reduce the number.

e.g.,

I have a gtkApplicationWindow called mainWindow.

I do

mainWindow.getSize(...)

It lists all the getSizes that exist. There are 11... but only 
one for mainWindow. e.g., it shows one for glib, one for atk, etc.

Not sure if the json is incomplete or visual D does not try to 
match the function to the object type it is used on?

Not a huge deal but through me off for a second until I realized 
what was going on. Not ideal but better than nothing. Maybe a 
simple fix?