Visual Xbase⁺⁺ 2.0 comes with a fully integrated Source Code Editor. The editor supports syntax highlighting. This automatically recognizes elements of the Xbase⁺⁺ syntax and displays those using configurable visual attributes. Code completion allows you to use abbreviations for user-defined keywords or even for entire code sections. This is just one of many new features that will surely enhance your development process. Replacing abbreviations with their full-text equivalents, the editor will help you save time, as long typing and formatting of complicated source code is shorten a lot.

The editing capabilities of the Source Code Editor are outstanding. Features, such as user-defined bookmarks, block marking, configurable key-mapping with default support for Visual Studio, Brief and Epsilon, are provided also.

The Source Code Editor features intelligent code completion. This characteristic may significantly simplify various programming tasks. The code completion mechanism can complete or replace any tokens with user-defined templates. A pre-defined set of templates for typical coding patterns, such as Function/Procedure bodies or Begin/End Sequence bodies with error code block restauration, are available right out of the box. Thus, helping to prevent typical coding errors and may also reduce the time-to-market period of your projects. To illustrate the code completion feature, just imagine the following: You type the first letters of a function name such as "DbU", code completions such as DbUseArea, DbUnlockAll() etc. will be displayed automatically. Yet, the Source-Code-Editor is even more intelligent. It also detects, th variables which were declared in the current scope, thus completing those as well. Well, you no longer will need to browse sections of your source code just to find out the proper spelling of a certain variable, function or method name!

Intelligent analysis of the curser and its current position, allows to provide context-specific information even when you type! By providing a powerful, extensible language assistant, IntelliHelp will improve your coding productivity even further. This built-in assistant features automatic parameter profile lookup for functions and methods. All this comes of course with full polymorphy support as well as lookup of #define values used in the current context.

The IntelliHelp system is fully customizable and learns automatically each time you write new code. The system can also be extended via a loading mechanism for additional type libraries. This enables IntelliHelp to recognize and provide context-sensitive help even for elements in 3rd party products or components.

01: /// <summary>
02: ///  <para>
03: ///   Calculates a centered window position on
04: ///   screen from size and reference size
05: ///  </para>
06: ///  <para>
07: ///   <bold>Example:</bold>
08: ///  </para>
09: ///  <para>
10: ///    aRefsize := AppDesktop():currentSize()
11: ///  </para>
12: ///  <para>
13: ///    aSize    := { 640, 400 }
14: ///  </para>
15: ///  <para>
16: ///    aPos     := CenterPos( aSize, aRefSize )
17: ///  </para>
18: /// </summary>
19: /// <returns>
20: ///  aPos  { nX, nY }
21: /// </returns>
22: /// 
23: FUNCTION CenterPos( aSize, aRefSize )
24: RETURN { Int( (aRefSize[1] - aSize[1]) / 2 ) ;
25:        , Int( (aRefSize[2] - aSize[2]) / 2 ) }