Channel 9 - Discussions by hbach

Coffeehouse - Searching for an "Auto Completion / Intellisense" Tool

hbach — Wed, 25 May 2005 13:06:21 GMT

Hi all,
maybe you can help me.
I'm searching for an Auto completion / intellisense tool.

I have the following problem :
- i'm programming in Abap (the SAP programming language) with the SAP Dev Environment (calles Abap Workbench). Coming from a VS.NET and VFP background i love the auto completion and intellisense features inside of the programming editor. The Abap workbench doesn't have this. So i'm searching for a tool that runs in the background of my computer and when i write for example :
"if" and press a key combination than a "table" should pop up where i can select the completion statement and than with enter (or what ever) this is pasted in my editor.

- or i write in word "Dear" and press a key combination then i want to select in a table "Sir, Madame etc.etc.) and with enter it is pasted in Word.

The tool has to be flexible so that i can enhance the keywords and templates.

If there is something like that please let me know. I'm willing to send all the Abap Keywords and templates and believe me there are 1000's of Abap programmers on the market searching for such a tool.

If there is not such a tool.... maybe someone is interested to write such a thing, and it will be a pleasure for me to help to open the channel in the Abap programmers community.

rgds.
Henning

Coffeehouse - What Keyboards do you use ?

hbach — Fri, 13 May 2005 07:43:19 GMT

The "Microsoft Natural Keyboard pro" has the typical key positions. And it is my prefered keyboard. But the MultiMedia Natural Keyboard has a big "Del" key and the "INS" Key is not on the normal position. If you look at the "Pro" you can see the difference between then. And i think this can be a problem if you work for years with the "pro" style and than you don't have the INS and DEL Key on their "normal" position.

Henning

Coffeehouse - What Keyboards do you use ?

hbach — Fri, 13 May 2005 06:50:25 GMT

Hi all,
actually i'm looking for a new keyboard.
I'm seraching for a keyboard that is programmer friendly.
It seems that you can't buy the "Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro" anymore and the "Microsoft Natural MultiMedia Keyboard" is not the best for programmers (some problems with the key positions).

So what keyboards do you use ??

Greetings from Germany
Henning

Coffeehouse - Roll call - tell us who you are!

hbach — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:41:07 GMT

Well my name is Henning and i work as a developer for a SAP shop. Actually using Abap Objects and some C# with the SAP.NET Connector. I'm so sorry but i have to switch my C# programming to Java and J2EE in the next year because this is the main dev plattform for the next decade of SAP. But i will use C# and some VB.NET for my private stuff.

Starting with Cobol and Clipper 16 years ago (i'm 36 now) i switched my programming languages to Clarion and Visual FoxPro in the mid 90's. 1999 i decided to work for a software company in Israel. Magic Software. Working as an SW Engineer with Magic's eDeveloper (one of the best tools i've worked with in my carrer).

Now i'm back working for a German software company in the SAP Area as an application developer.

In my rare free time i'm doing some Wing Tsun (a chinese Martial Art) and there is a girl fried and a cat who want's also their part of my life.

Greetings from Germany
Henning