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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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<title>Content assist</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../help.css">
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<h1>Content Assist</h1>
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<p>Content Assist is a set of tools built into the CDT that can reduce the number of keystrokes you must
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type to create your code. The Content Assist plugin consists of several components that forecast what
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a developer will type, based on the current context, scope, and prefix.</p>
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<h2>Code completion</h2>
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<p>Content assist provides code completion in the body of a method
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or a function. For the current project (and any referenced projects) a list is
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displayed of the elements that begin with the letter combination you entered, and
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the relevance of each proposal is determined in the following order:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Fields</li>
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<li>Variables</li>
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<li>Methods</li>
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<li>Functions</li>
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<li>Classes</li>
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<li>Structs</li>
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<li>Unions</li>
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<li>Namespaces</li>
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<li>Enumerations</li>
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</ul>
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You trigger the Code completion feature when you call Content Assist (such as when you type <tt>Ctrl+Space</tt>), but you alsow invoke it when you type
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"<b>.</b>", "<b>-></b>" or "<b>::</b>".</p>
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<img src="../images/contentAssist_example.gif" border="0" width="598" height="544" alt="C++ example showing Code Assist popup">
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<p>You can view the signature of each item on the list in a pop-up by pointing
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to it. You can then select an
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item in the list to insert it directly into your code. Newly created
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elements in your current or referenced project(s) must be saved before they will
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appear in the Content Assist list.</p>
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<h2>Code templates</h2>
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<p>You can create and save code templates for frequently used sections of code. The Content Assist feature also provides quick access to code
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templates.</p>
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<p>When you enter a letter combination in the C/C++ editor, and type <tt>CTRL+SPACE</tt> (or right-click and click <b>Content Assist</b>), a
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list of code elements and code templates that start with the letter combination that you typed is displayed.</p>
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<p>You can then select a code template from the list and it is inserted directly into your code.</p>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/editor_c_codetemplates_use.gif" width="483" height="333" alt="C++ example showing Code Assist popup"></p>
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<p>For example, the code template <samp>do while statement</samp> contains the following code:</p>
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<p><pre>do {
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${cursor}
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} while (${condition});</pre></p>
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<p> When you select the <samp>do</samp> code template from the list, you insert the following code:</p>
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<p><pre>do {
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} while (condition);</pre></p>
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<p>If the completion engine finds only one proposal in your templates, that proposal is inserted at the current cursor position.
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For example if you create a new CPP file and type <tt>mai+CTRL+SPACE</tt> the following code is inserted at the cursor location:</p>
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<p><pre>int
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main(int argc, char **argv) {
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}</pre></p>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngconcepts.gif" ALT="Related concepts" width="143" height="21">
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<br>
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<a href="cdt_o_code_entry.htm">Code entry</a></p>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngtasks.gif" ALT="Related tasks" width="143" height="21">
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<br>
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<a href="../tasks/cdt_t_contentassist.htm">Using Content Assist</a><br>
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<a href="../tasks/cdt_t_add_codetemp.htm">Creating and editing code templates</a><br>
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<a href="../tasks/cdt_t_imp_code_temp.htm">Importing and exporting code templates</a></p>
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<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngref.gif" ALT="Related reference" width="143" height="21">
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<br>
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<a href="../reference/cdt_u_icons.htm">C/C++ perspective icons</a></p>
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<p>
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<img src="../images/ng03_04.gif" ALT="IBM Copyright Statement" BORDER=0 width="324" height="14"></p>
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