Would you…
use an alternate editor for auto complete(type ahead)? I have not been doing much development in Domino these days, but I have been developing in other editors that support auto complete. You could say that I have been spoiled, but I look at it as a necessity for todays development.
When developing in OO there are some many classes each having its own list of methods and properties. The auto complete is just required. What can make things even more challenging is how frequently the classes are being used.
Since Domino Designer only supports native objects for auto complete I had to start looking other places for my dependancy. Yes, I do use ScriptBrowser which is great for quick reference, but for developing a new class the auto complete is required. The only other option was LotusScript Editor for Eclipse , but once again there was an browser but no auto complete. Took a look at other editors like NotePad++ and TextPad but once again no auto complete.
The next option was to see if VB6 could handle what I need because it has similar syntax as LotusScript. Yes it is closer to LotusScript but that is also its drawback. The UI did not give me enough control over organizing my classes.
The last options was to use Visual Studio and VB.NET, this seems to be the best fit. There are two issues that I am working threw: no LotusScript functions like, StrCompare, StrRight, ArrayGetIndex and class properties. I am not looking to run LotusScript through Visual Studio, but to create the initial shell of methods and classes. Yes, this might come back to hurt me but for now I need the auto complete.
Has anyone else consider this and done any research?
July 12th, 2007 - 02:04
I have done similar research but got to no better a place than you did. So more often than not I just live with ScriptBrowser.
One of the VB guys I know that does some Notes from time to time, did use Visual Studio with VB once – then copied the code over to Notes and sorted out the remaining syntax – he reckoned this was quicker.
I’m just hoping that I’m still around doing Notes work to see the Designer running on Eclipse.
So not much to add other than verify what you have already done ..