Re: [cdt-patch] TextHover patch

["Alain Magloire" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

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redirected to cdt-dev-ui list, i.e. please reply to this list instead of cdt-patch.

> A patch to provide TextHover capability to CDT is available at
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> http://people.redhat.com/cmoller/TextHoverPatch/
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Some issues:
                                                                                                                             
- Licensing issues (?) for the templates.
- specific platform gtk.  Once the gnu.ui plugin
  is created, we could move those things in.
                                                                                                                             
1) Once contributor to rule them all !!!
  It's probably not necessary to have two contributors
  (CCompletionContributorManager __and__ CTextHoverContributor),
  having one should be enough has it is the same information.
  CCompletion, for example, could provide help, (see how the JDT
  ties the javadocs to the completion)
  I would say to provide more methods to IFunctionSummary.
  Also note the CCompletionContributor is also use for the add_include_action:

2) Filter base on projects
  If you are working on a Windows application, or QNX project you
  probably do not want gtk completion or hovering.

I do like the idea of having one format, in your case the java properties,
or XML format, whatever is easy to parse.
It would allow contributions from third parties and better integration, i.e.
working with qt/motif or other libraries.

Let see if we can work this out.