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CAL Completer 0.01.02 Beta (Windows 2000/XP)

CAL Completer brings the wonderful functionality of code completion to Navision.

This is only a beta version. Please send me ALL your feedback. If you find a bug or if you have a suggestion, please mail this to emiel.romein@gmail.com.

If you are happy with the tool and if you are actually using the tool, please become a mibuso Site Supporter ( http://www.mibuso.com/donation.asp ).

For every 5 people that become a site supporter because of this tool, I’ll guarantee a new release / update with NEW functionality*!

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* As long as new functionality can be added.

Known Issues:
Not all keys can be used while the CAL Completion window exists.

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Discuss this download here.

It seems CAL Completer is consuming quite a bit of CPU power when Navision is the active program but the C/AL Editor isn’t the form in which is worked.

This will be a high priority bug to fix.

Good Work Emiel Romein,

If we can include some color and auto format facility, it would be really good.
Hopefully it will be more similar to Visual Basic or visual studio. (Just Kidding)

Good Work..........Emiel Romein

Regards,

Vijay,

Thanks!

I don't think I can do colors and auto formatting, as you probably knew, but if you have other suggestions, please post them.

I was thinking about:

Make the backspace work when CAL Completion window is open.
Command (cside) help from the CAL Completion window.
Ctrl+Enter to get an ; or an () with the command. (Need to think of a name for this one)
Ctrl+Shift+Enter to get the complete syntax (incl. parameters) of a command.
Possibility to include your own tags.
Auto size window to fit the commands
No completion between quotes (Difficult one!)

goood one ...

- how about make the selection list a little bigger (5 - 8 items or even better - configurable)?
- if i make a 'typo' and return back with backspace, it don't recognize the previous part of word to complete, instead it offers new completitions.

Is it possible to share the knowledge how to write into CAL window?

That would be the "Auto size window to fit the commands " on my list.

So, that's on the to-do list already. If you have any more suggestion please post (or mail)!

The Backspace thingy is on the list too. So, all your wishes will be granted.



The commands are all in the .txt file. Check the CAL Completer folder in the Program Files folder. You can see you can add anyting you like.

I want to ba able to let people add their own fingerprints. This is already possible, but you can not add spaces between the // and the rest, plus you can not yet automatically add dates to the prints.

But maybe, this will be in the next version. But first we need 5 people to become a site supporter!

Cool!

Next feature:
- show completer's window on "Ctrl+Space" (or just allow to customize hot-keys)
- "code snippets"

Guys! How about to make a team and develop our own IDE for Navision? We can work with objects in text format. We will wait for good Navision IDE from Microsoft till doomsday!

BlackTiger,

I've added your suggestions to the wishlist.

Now.... become a mibuso site supporter so I can start developing a new version with new functionality!

I've seen this suggestion many times in this forum but somehow this never takes off.
I gues the reasons are that :
a) It is much more work than anyone anticipates.
b) An editor is worth nothing without a compiler
c) It is too tedious to have to export the objects as textfiles, work on them in the external editor, and then import them back again, test the software, see that you still have an error, and restart the complete cycle again. I for one would feel that what you are winning witha better editor, you would lose with all the extra importing and exporting.

I have the same feeling, but I don't see who else but MS can make an adequate Navision Editor that is a part of Navision and thus works seemlesly.

I'm not meaning something like VS2005 . Simpler, more simpler...

We need "dictionary autocomplete" ("static dict." for common things and "dynamic dict." for current used objects). For forms we can make "layout interpreter". We don't need a full compiler.
Also we can use DevToolKit database as "source of sources"

Yes, to run and test objects we have to manually import objects into Navision (unfortunately CFRONT doesn't supports import from text format).

I agree, this isn't an easy job. But hardest part of this job - to begin doing something.

PS: May be somebody in MS' deeps working on integration of CAL into VisualStudio, may be... Not sure, very not sure.

a bit off topic don't you guys think?

Maybe you'll have better luck in this post...

I think I don´t see that suggestion, but ... what about see fields from the table when you write Table.xxx? Fields from a table are accesible dinamically from Field virtual table.

Anyway, very good tool!! I like it very much, thanks

It's on the list. But, this will be one of the last things to implement.

Soon there will be a version 1 comming out, which will be a stable version of the tool as it is along with a few little new features.

Thanks for your compliment. Af any new suggestion, please let me know!

Hey Eronmein,

Nice tool !

Too me it does not make sense to use the 'enter' key for activating the autocompletion. Could you make it like when you use the '(' or ';' key to activate the autocompletion? (and then also add the key that was used to activate autocompletion at the end of the instruction).

at the end Then it would be somehow simular then in an .NET environment.

This would also make your idea about different key combinations not necesarry anymore.

Also i get the '"' extra signs at still unpredictable moments.

Jan-Pieter,

I've added your wish (; & () to the list.

What do you mean by: “Also i get the '"' extra signs at still unpredictable moments.”

btw, nice quote you have there

Cheers,