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Hugh789
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July 17, 2009
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Is there away to speed up code hinting?

  • July 17, 2009
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The code hinting seems to be a bit buggy.  Sometimes it seems the hints come at a decent rate, other times they don't come at all, and then sometimes they come at there own sweet pace.  Is there somewhere that hint pace can be accelerated?  I have used dreamweaver for so long, and I love it as a developemnt tool.

Just a thought.  If I had to pay for this tool, as is, there is no way that I would want to replace dreamweaver with this IDE.  There are definitely some cool aspects to the tool.  I may not be using this word right, but is it the "introspection" that allows the IDE to code hint the UDFs that you've created.  Whether or not it is, I do like that feature.

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Ram Kulkarni
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Ram KulkarniCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 17, 2009

Can you give example of when code assist works slow? That would help us to fix the problem.

One case that we are aware of where code assist for CFC names (in createObject/new) takes time is when you have a large project with many folders and CFCs. We are working to fix this.

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Hugh789Author
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July 17, 2009

I have been using the coldfusion builder experimentally.

All the work I have done has been with very small files.  Just experimenting with some of the new tags.  Checking out how robust the coldfusion builder IDE is.  I have found that its tempermental all of the time.  I have not compiled a list of items yet, but I will start to.

The particular issue of code hinting:

The only thing that seems to work consistantly is the html code hints.  Those seem to pop up right away.  I found where you can adjust the code hint speed, and I set it to 0 or 1.  I can't remember right off the top of my head.  Not much of a differnce anyway.  I restarted cf Builder and it still has the same issues.

In order from worst performace to best:

1. CFf function code hinting seems to be the slowest, and least reliable.  About half the time the code doesn't even pop up.

2. CFML code hinting is unpredictable as well.  It does work more often than the items mentioned above.

3. HTML code hinting seems to work just fine.  I haven't written any large files yet.

4. While css seems to respond okay, I'm used to dreamweavers css color choices.  Many more color options in DW

For your info, I am running CF builder on a windows 7 rc platform.

Let me know if there is anything else that you need to help with your diagnostics

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andrewjdixon
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July 17, 2009

I've also noticed that the code hinting is very bugging, something working and sometime not. It seems to be particularly bad at giving hints for CF functions.

Andrew.

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