[MonoDevelop] Re: MonoDoc and jumping to declaration

[Jacob Ilsø Christensen]

On 5/23/05, Lluis Sanchez <lluis at ximian.com> wrote:
> On dl, 2005-05-23 at 12:14 +0200, Jacob Ilsø Christensen wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > What Monodoc service it that?
> 
> MonoDevelop.Services.MonodocService (in the MonoDevelop.Base assembly).
> 

Ok. Will have a look at that.

> > From what I have seen in the code, a
> > string is just returned now which is hardcoded to "T:thetypename".
> > What I would like to do is to move this functionality to the type
> > itself, since it is the IProperty that knows that a P: should be
> > prepended and likewise for the other members.
> 
> No, this is not something that IProperty knows, because "P:" and the way
> how help URLs are built is specific to the MonoDoc help system.
> 
> We should have a new method in MonodocService (for example, ShowHelp)
> which takes as parameter a ISourceCodeElement and displays the help page
> for that element. That method would check the real type of the element
> and would build the correct URL for it.

Yes. I can see the issue now. The only thing I have against it is that
this would result in code like:

if (sourcCodeElement is IProperty) {
   return "P:" + sourceCodeElement.FullyQualifiedName;
}

etc for each interface. What do you think about this?

> The code in SourceEditorView that displays the HelpViewer window should
> be moved to MonodocService.
> 

Ok. I'll restructure things.

> > Is there some
> > functionality I have not found?
> >
> > /Jacob
> 
> > >
> 
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/Jacob