I really like how IntelliJ displays the information of the type of parameters that you are required to fill in as you are writing the code. The problem is that this info sometimes disappears if u click somewhere to check something etc. I never quite know how to get it to display that information again in same fashion. So I always spend some time to fiddle around until it displays that info again in the same fashion. I know you can hold down on ctrl and hover over the method name to bring up parameters information but its not quite the same and it then does not highlight on what parameter you are currently on. IntelliJ also brings up required parameters type of information when you are starting to go wrong. It brings up this big separate box and you can get very clear view of what needs to be done. I've taken a screenshot of the type of information that I'm on about. Both of them are on the same pic.
Please check it out.
My question: is there a way to bring this information up via keystrokes or mouse input at will? I've tried to google for an answer but I haven't had any joy. Please advise as I'm sure someone else might like this information too.
Thank you.
PS. I know that a good code does not usually have that many parameters but in my case there is not much that can be done.
Default shortcut for that is CTRL-P when cursor is inside the brackets.
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When I'm working in IntelliJ, I often get this popup window that helps to see what method signatures I can use.
It's helpful sometimes, so I don't want to disable it, but in certain situations like this, it blocks my view and I don't know what I'm doing. Is there a way to move the position of this pop-up to under the code being typed instead of above? Basically, I'd still like the pop-up, but I'd like to see the code above it.
I'm new on this, sorry for bad usage of terms or overextending an explanation. I'm learning code languages and way i found to bring it to my world so i can learn it better, was coding for/with games i play.
When a window close on the game a function needs to be called, when the character move or you pick an item, everything has a command, function, process or some value of an address change and etc... What i wanted to know is if there something that shows me on real time every call, every value change, address value change, etc...
Nowdays i have to reach some value address by CheatEngine, changing the value till i find the correct address. With this kind of thing i would have a list off things that is happening right now, and a "log" of the past things, then i go to the exact time that i did something, so i would have to look on that peace of the list and discover what did my "something"
Click on a button;
Check on the real-time thing what happened at the time of the "Click
on a button" process;
Discover what call was responsible for that and what it did;
Now i can code something that do what "Click on a button" do, without needing to actually click on that button;
I have seen it somewhere, thats why i'm asking here, if i'm totally wrong and this doesn't exist, i'm sorry, i will delete this post.
I believe a Debugger is what your looking for.
The Debugger in Visual Studio does exactly what your describing, you can see the real time values of your variables and objects at any stage in your program.
You can set 'Break Points' that will halt your code wherever you put them, allowing you to inspect your variables.
You can also 'Step' through your code, which will go line by line through your code, stopping at each line to allow you to inspect.
Here is a good page for an overview of debugging in Visual Studio 2017:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y740d9d3.aspx
I actually have two questions here. First one is exactly what the title says. Example: I want users to be able to add a setting into My.Settings from the application. I want them to be able to add an unlimited amount and I want the scope to be set to user and the type set to string. I don't want them to be able to change the scope or type, only the "Title" and "Value". What I need this for is so users can make a setting so if they type "sof" into the URL bar of a VB.net browser it will go to "stackoverflow.com" of course I want them to be able to change the shortcut and the site and add new ones. I also want them to be able to view a list of all of them and edit or delete the ones on the list.
Second question is how do I make the code search through all of my settings and see if any of them are titled what the person put into the URL bar and if there is get the value of it and navigate too it.
I know this is a lot to ask, and I am not asking for someone to do it for me, I am asking someone what procedure would I follow to do this. If there is already a tutorial or an answer to this please link me to it. If you have the time please answer.
Actually, not to make Douglas look bad, but you can easily do what you want with the user settings. See this My.Settings page from MS. What you will want is the "System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection" setting type. The link I gave you shows you how to read, change, and save the data. It also shows you how to make a simple UI for the user to be able to change them, if you want.
As for the second part, also easy using LINQ. This is not exactly what you want but it is close and has a lot of good examples.
i'm making a windows application that would open a program and click on certain coordinates, first i need to know how to get a coordinate, which i already know, but how do I let my mouse click on a certain position? Simply it would be somthing like mouse.Click(coordinate). I don't know, could anyone help?
Regards
I tried putting this as a comment, but SO wouldn't put the comment up after I typed it, so I had to put what I had as an answer.
Here are two links that might have what you're looking to do: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/7b68f005-1d09-4085-b236-b05797df3bf0/how-to-make-the-mouse-click
and
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a2518c35-ed77-42b3-a9c4-705238d714c2/mouse-click
And if you just want to click a button, you could use
button.Performclick()
But I don't think that there's any simple way (such as Mouse.Click()) to make the mouse click anywhere.
HTH
I wrote a plugin that gets user input from Java editor, makes some computation, and writes the results to my view. The way I start the process of aforementioned computation is via context menu and I hate it. I would like it to start on ctrl+space, i.e. content assist. It is faster, more intuitive w.r.t. what the plugin does. Is there a way to do so?
Update:
For example, what should I do to get the current cursor position when user presses ctrl+space? I would use that position info and print it to my view. This is the most simplistic plugin that I basically need.
You could take part in the content assistent calculation of Ctrl-Space by extending javaCompletionProposalComputer. However, if you want to trigger some arbitrary modification operation on the Java file, you are better suited by providing a quick assist instead.
If you are confused by the terms: An example for quick assist is the suggestion "Invert if statement", which you can see when pressing Ctrl-1 with the cursor placed on an "if".