(52/185) 125 - sidekick: custom CompletionPopup

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Sorry, I pressed "Add artifact" too soon.

AFAICS, the only place where a CompletionPopup is created in sidekick is in the SidekickActions class, so the call :

popup = new SideKickCompletionPopup(view, parser,
textArea.getCaretPosition(), complete, active)
{
/\*\* forget reference to this popup when it is disposed \*/
public void dispose()
{
super.dispose();
popup = null;
}
};


coulld be replaced by :

popup = parser.getCompletionPopup( view, extArea.getCaretPosition(), complete, active) ;

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With the proposed "design", I've achieved the Screenshot attached by extending slightly the SideKickCompletionPopup associated with my parser. I would be happy to send a formal patch if needed.

The component on the right is a JEditorPane that shows an html page, but we could imagine other things, such as for example a jedit text area showing the surroundings of where the current variable is created, ...

How did you achieve that? Did you create your own Candidates implementation and use the renderer to find the selected item?

Almost. Sidekick defines the Candidates interface as a private class within SidekickCompletion, so there is a little I can do with it from outside, but I took inspiration from this approach.

However, the SideKickCompletion class offers the possibility to override the getRenderer method, responsible to render __one__ completion, I believe this is passed to the Candidates interface eventually. So you write a custom renderer (in my case using a JTable as the component): see this (http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t149702-jtable-in-jcombobox.html) for example.

My getListCellRendererComponent method looks like this:

public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value,
int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
if (isSelected) {
// update the editor pane here
}
}

For the component that extends SidekickCompletionPopup, I took your TagCompletionPopup (in CtagsInterface) as a starting point, and did something like this in the constructor

{
super( view, parser, caret, complete, active ) ;

editor = new JEditorPane( "text/plain", "" ) ;
editor.setSize( 400, editor.getFontMetrics(editor.getFont()).getHeight() \* Math.max(10, complete.size() + 2) ) ;
Container left = getContentPane();
JPanel p = new JPanel(
new VariableGridLayout(VariableGridLayout.FIXED_NUM_ROWS, 1) );
p.add(left );
JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(editor) ;
p.add(pane);
setContentPane(p);
}

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