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The new X++ editor (part 2)

A couple of improvements to look forward to in the Intellisense UI:

In a completion session, holding the ctrl key will make the drop-down dialog transparent, so you can see the code underneath:

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The dorp down list is also filtered and your typing is displayed in the buffer:

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Ctrl-Mouse wheel will allow you to zoom the code in and out:

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  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2010
    Nice! /Jonas

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2010
    Please add refactoring! specially extract to method and extract interface. Also add more intellisense in the first word, for variables. And also if you can Datasources in reports and forms, can accept Maps. :) Regards, Mariano Vicario

  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2010
    Hi One thing that I am really missing in x++ (since I have my background in .NET) is the possibility to explore class instances in the debugger. In Visual Studio both properties and methods can be previewed/manipulated in the debugger. In Ax, all I see is "new" or "null". Do you have any plans for changing this? Perhaps there could be an option to tag parm methods somehow, so that the content could be viewed in the debugger. Or... at least it would be great to be able to view the content of all variables declared in the class declaration. That would save all of us tremendous amounts of time. /Jonas

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2010
    These features are related to the debugger and not to the editor.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2010
    True. So does the debugger team have a blog that I could annoy? :-) /Jonas

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2010
    You can try to annoy my respected colleagues from the X++ team on this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/x/ ;-)

  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2010
    >> Also add more intellisense in the first word, for variables. Yes, yes. Like it already done in AxAssist Add-on for Axapta 3.0, DAX4.0 and DAX2009.

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2010
    We already added word completion ('Intellisense in the first word'). That feature will give you a drop-down on the first keystroke, containing your local variables,  all  possible types, built-in functions, globals and so on. The list gets filtered as you type just like for method lookup.

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    This are nice improvements at most. But I find  filtered drop lists very annoying and it's also not the way VisualStudio handles drop downs.

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Actually, does filter on completion scenario. Moreover, X++ does not have the ability to limit the namespacing scope, so completion lists tends to get very large, so filtering is practically necessary.