How to auto complete from API list?

[observantsound]

I've seen this in Davids videos. I thought it was just double clicking on the API command but that doesn't seem to work for me...?

[d.healey]

@observantsound That hasn't worked for a long time :(

[Matt_SF]

@observantsound pressing 'enter' works on PC here.
On MacOS the auto complete doesn't even appear most of the time.

[d.healey]

@Matt_SF I don't think he's talking about the auto-complete popup. It used to be the case that you could double-click an item in the API browser and it would add it to your script, but that no longer works.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey oh you're right (it seems I'm lacking focus today) , yeah this has been broken for a while indeed. Too bad, that was useful.

[ustk]

@Matt_SF But still you're right, the auto-complete doesn't always work as intended. For instance Console.print() is not always showing...
Would be good to get back the double-click on the APIs as well, and the "All component folded" I added a while ago when opening the project... This somehow disappeared, I'll have a look if I can do something

EDIT: In fact the component list can be collapsed with a right click => Open tree by default (which is not recalled, but since it's at one click...)

[ustk]

@ustk The API double-ckick (or press return key) has not been implemented for the new code editor and is beyond my skills:

void MainController::insertStringAtLastActiveEditor(const String &string, bool selectArguments)
{
#if USE_BACKEND
	if (lastActiveEditor.getComponent() != nullptr)
	{
		auto ed = dynamic_cast<PopupIncludeEditor::EditorType*>(lastActiveEditor.getComponent());

#if !HISE_USE_NEW_CODE_EDITOR

		ed->getDocument().deleteSection(ed->getSelectionStart(), ed->getSelectionEnd());
		ed->moveCaretTo(CodeDocument::Position(ed->getDocument(), lastCharacterPositionOfSelectedEditor), false);
		ed->insertTextAtCaret(string);

		if (selectArguments)
		{
			ed->moveCaretLeft(false, false);

			while (!ed->getTextInRange(ed->getHighlightedRegion()).contains("("))
				ed->moveCaretLeft(false, true);

			ed->moveCaretRight(false, true);
		}

#endif
		ed->grabKeyboardFocus();
	}
#endif
}

[observantsound]

Ok good to know that the whole auto complete is a bit inconsistent.
So it's not just me doing it wrong!