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[Kai Siegele]

Hallo, I have created a procedure lib with some hopeful useful classes and methods. For each method I have written a small documentation describing purpose, parameters and result. For example, a method and its documentation in class DataExchange looks like this: /*------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purpose: Reads a string from a textbox with at least given number of characters Parameter: tb - Textbox to read string from sField - Name of the string-value to read iMinLength - Minimum number of character output cOutput - Read string when result true Result: true when a string as specified was read, false otherwise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ METHOD PUBLIC STATIC LOGICAL ReadString(INPUT tb AS System.Windows.Forms.TextBox, INPUT sField AS CHARACTER, INPUT iMinLength AS INTEGER, OUTPUT cOutput AS CHARACTER): DEFINE VARIABLE result AS LOGICAL NO-UNDO. DEFINE VARIABLE errorMessage AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO. IF (LENGTH(tb:Text) >= iMinLength) THEN ASSIGN result = TRUE cOutput = tb:Text. ELSE DO: result = FALSE. ShowError(SUBSTITUTE("Eingabe für &1 muss mindestens &2 Zeichen lang sein", sField, iMinLength), tb). END. RETURN result. END METHOD. Then I have written a small program with Eclipse as development environment, that should use the functionality of the procedure library. And now my two questions: When writing the code if am typing the name of the class and intellisense shows a small list box with all methods of the class. When selecting one of these methods in the list box, the signature is shown in a small window on the right. But unfortunately the purpose of the method “Reads a string from a textbox with at least given number of characters” is not shown. Has anyone an idea why? After I have inserted the method call in my code, I am clicking on the method call. Unfortunately intellisense is not jumping to the code of the method. Would anyone be so kind and give me a hint why not? Kind regards Kai Siegele

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