[MonoDevelop] Description tool tips inconsistency

Tomas Petricek tomas.petricek at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 09:42:05 EDT 2010


Hi,
there is an interesting inconsistency (in my opinion) in when tool
tips with descriptions of members (shown in autocompletion drop down)
are displayed. I'm not quite sure if this is a bug or feature or just
something that's a side effect of some implementation choice, so I
thought I'd ask here.

The steps to reproduce the behavior are following (using C#, but it
behaves the same in my F# integration):
  - Type "System" and press "." or navigate to the end of (existing)
"System." text and hit Ctrl+Space
  - A completion list appears with some item selected (but not
highlighted) and a tool tip with information for the item appears

However, if you do slightly different thing, then the tool tip is not shown:
  - Type "System.R" (autocompletion appears and tool tip for
"System.Random" appears too)
  - Close the autocomplete (e.g. using Esc) and hit Ctrl+Space
  - A completion list appears with some item selected, but no tool tip
is shown (!)
  - Press up/down or down/up keys to navigate in the list and tool tip
appears...

Is this intentional behavior?

Thanks,
Tomas Petricek


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