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Key: IDEA-17444
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Assignee: Maxim Mossienko
Reporter: Henri Karapuu
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Improve sorting of the functions in autocomplete box

Created: 18 Mar 08 08:15   Updated: 18 Mar 08 11:48
Component/s: Flex Support

Build: 7,757
Severity: Medium


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The function name auto-completion list in ActionScript is currently in alphabetical order.

Usually in ActionScript there are many times more available functions than there are methods in java classes, and thus the alphabetical order does not work very well for ActionScript.

One typical use case is when working with / learning a new API and using the function name autocompletion for finding out or guessing the correct function names for desired functionality. In Java side this works nicely, but in ActionScript side there are so many available functions that this becomes pretty useless.

Therefore, i'd like to suggest adding an option for customizing the sorting of the function names. One simple way how it could work is to have all the Flash/Flex build-in/inherited functions as "lower priority", so that in the auto complete box all user-land functions of the class would be shown first in alphabetical order, and below them would be all the flash/flex build-in functions in alphabetical order. The user-land functions could be perhaps shown also in bold.

Later of course some customization would be nice, like having list of package names that are considered lower priority etc.

Thanks for considering.



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