[ArKay]

I am using Tango, so I hope that doesn't make any difference.

Here's the output from the build:

[sagitario]

I don't think that building tango browse information by the "Build Phobos browse info" command works. It is very much tailored to the directory structure of druntime and phobos.

You should build the tango library with the -X option to create a json file and put this file in a directory specified by the global json path setting.

[JoeCoder]

You should add a note about "Build Phobos Browse info" to the instructions. Or maybe it's not there and I didn't see it.

I've been trying off and on all day to get intellisense for phobos to work.

[JoeCoder]

I hope to migrate to D2 eventually, but for now I am also using Tango.

D2 and phobos is working well. I have built the json file from tango 0.99.9 and added it to Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Visual D Directories -> JSON Paths, but parameter info and go to definition are still not working for D1/tango. I did remember to switch the DMD install path and the project's compilation options back to D1.

Is there any way to see error output from VisualD that may be preventing this from working?

Here is my tango json file, in case it is useful to anyone else.

[sagitario]

There is a little info on building the runtime library json info here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/BrowseInfo
But I agree, the section will not help you, if something goes wrong.

The problem with your tango json file is that it cannot be parsed, because it is malformatted. The parser complains about '{' immediately following '}' without a ',' in between on line 26 (I had to patch std.json to get a linenumber). Probably dmd for D1 has not received all the json related patches from the D2 compiler.

I guess it would be helpful to show the error info in the output window. I will put it on my todo list.

[JoeCoder]

Thanks for your fast response.

I have fixed the json via find/replace and it now passes this json validator.

But it's still not working. when I type "Thread.sleep(", I get no context help. But typing "test2(" gives me the correct parameter info. Pressing ctrl+shift+space after the sleep( does nothing.

Here is my code:

[sagitario]

My guess is that you have specified the json file in the JSON path setting. Instead, you should only pass the directory, i.e. C:\dev\env\tango\import.

I also remember troubles when a trailing \ is given, but IIRC that is fixed.

[JoeCoder]

Thanks again for your quick response.

It's working a little better. Now I get parameter info hints after typing Thread.sleep(

However, after typing Thread. , I don't get any help. If I press ctrl+space (once or twice), I get a list of tokens in the current module, including "module" and "new". But sleep is not included in the list

Additionally, if I create a second file:

[JoeCoder]

Looking at the Language support in the editor page, it looks like dot-completion might not be implemented yet?

When I asked about "Browse Info" earlier, I had been going through the pages in order and thought that all of those features should work by the time I got to the "Editor" page. Maybe the "Browse Info" page should appear before the "Editor" page in the tour?

[JoeCoder]

It looks like the json browse information built for Yage (dsource.org/projects/yage) also has the same no-comma }{ problem described above.

Unless you know a solution, I'll add a post-build-step to fix my json files.

[sagitario]

Using the post-build-step to fix the json files is a good idea. You should also report the issue to dmd's bug tracking http://d.puremagic.com/issues/

Visual D does not have semantic analysis, so it has no idea about the context for completion after a '.'. That's why it just lists identifiers from the same buffer that start with the text at the caret (which is already quite helpful, in rare cases even better than sophisticated stuff from the analysis). If you hit Ctrl+Space again, matching identifiers from the JSON files are added to the list.

[JoeCoder]