[Lazarus] Autocomplete with procedure varibles

[Sven Barth]

Am 23.04.2012 22:20, schrieb Bernd:
> I have something like this:
>
> var
>    some_external_func: function(foo: bar): baz; cdecl;
>    some_external_proc: procedure(bla: blub); cdecl;
>
> and later I will assign them with pointers received with
> GetProcAddress() from a dynamically loaded library. There are a lot of
> these functions and I need to call most of them a lot of times all
> over my code. It all works perfectly well with only one little
> annoyance: Whenever I invoke the code completion when writing a
> function call it will complete like a "normal" variable:
>
> some_external_func :=
>
> I have to backspace and remove the := manually so I can proceed with
> the opening bracket. From this moment on everything is ok again, with
> Ctrl+Schift+Space I will have a calltip hint exactly like with normal
> functions. The problem is only the autocompletion.
>
> Is this intentional? At least in my current case in 90% of all times
> when I start typing the name of a procedure variable I actually want
> to call it. (actually in my current project I don't even assign them
> all individually with := anymore either, I have factored this one
> assignment out to a place where I don't have to touch it anymore, so
> its actually 99.9%)
>
> Would it be possible to change the behavior of autocomplete for
> procedure variables (maybe even make it a config option with) or would
> this be considered as a wontfix because other uses happen more often
> than my special case here?

Your case is not so special... the same happens e.g. when using OpenGL 
functions which are procedural variables as well.

Regards,
Sven