Re: [Boost-users] Boost and Intellisense...

From: Graham Reitz (graham.cpp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-19 09:54:37

Thanks Paul.

>Or have I misunderstood? Are you saying that Intellisense stops working
>altogether when you use filesystem::path, and then refuses to work on
>any other code that you type in?

Yes, that's correct.  Anything before the line of code, in the original
post, works (i.e. if I do std::[intellisense works]) but after (i.e.
std::[no intellisense]) and it doesn't.

Also, I didn't mean to imply this is a boost issue, it certainly isn't.  But
was wondering if other folks have the same issue(s) or know a workaround.

Thanks again,
Graham

On 4/19/07, Paul Giaccone <paulg_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Graham Reitz wrote:
>
> > This is probably a little out of scope but I am hoping that someone
> > has gotten this to work.
> >
> > A code line like this:
> >
> > boost::filesystem::path working_path_a(
> > boost::filesystem::current_path() );
> >
> > ...causes vstudio 2005 intellisense to stop working.  It says this 'No
> > additional Information Available' at the bottom.
> >
> > Anything before that line and intellisense works fine and anything
> > after it doesn't.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.   As a relatively new user to
> > boost having this feature really helps out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Graham
>
> Intellisense is a misnomer (/pace/ Bill Gates) in my opinion, as it is
> not intelligent and sometimes makes no sense. I find that it fails to
> find members of elements of an array of class instantiations. For example:
>
>     class MyClass
>     {
>     public:   //for the sake of example
>        int member;
>     };
>
>     MyClass x;
>     MyClass y[10];
>
>     x.member = 1;
>     y[0].member = 2;
>
> Typing the dot after the x will suggest "member", but Intellisense fails
> to do so when you type "y[0].", I seem to recall.
>
> So I'm sorry to say that I think this might be an Intellisense issue
> rather than a Boost one. I hope someone can say otherwise, but sometimes
> Intellisense isn't up to the job and you have to type things out by hand.
>
> Or have I misunderstood? Are you saying that Intellisense stops working
> altogether when you use filesystem::path, and then refuses to work on
> any other code that you type in?
>
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