I have just started dipping my toes with JUCE and the wonderfull Audio Programmer tutorials on Youtube.
For the most part I can follow along, but I am getting a bit jealous about how he does command click (jump to definition) while autocompleting to look things up.
The tutorials are made with JUCE 5, and I am using JUCE 6. I have read the change about not including the header, but prefixing juce:: before every method, and I think this is why I don’t have the same “jump to…” command available as in the tutorials. But as a beginner, this would certainly be mighty handy to have available.
I know I can look up stuff in the API documentation, but at the moment this is all a bit overwhelming.
Is the lack of autocomplete something that I am doing wrong, and is it easy to rectify (a setting in Xcode perhaps) ?
The “Jump to Definition” seems to work fine for me on Xcode 11.6 with JUCE 6.
I can do it with Cmd + Right-Click.
Notice that to do it also with Cmd + Left-Click there’s a preference required to be set (Preferences…/Navigation/Command-click on Code:).
I meant this:
Looking at this YouTube tutorial, around 32:41
he types:
slider1.setSliderStyle(juce::Slider::SliderStyle newStyle)
and he can command click on the word “SliderStyle” to look up what is available
With JUCE 6 however (or something I have done wrong), I get this line of code:
slider1.setSliderStyle(SliderStyle newStyle)
and I can click no where.
I first need to delete the code inside the parenthesis, and replace it with juce::Slider::SliderStyle, and after all this, I can command click, but why is my code autocompleting the wrong code to begin with ?
The problem I am facing is that all of this is so new to me, I have no clue which methods exist and which parameters are available for each method.
If my Xcode is not giving me at least a correct hint, I will never find what I am looking for… the way my Xcode is autocompleting the methods seems useless and confusing, so I must be doing something wrong ?
On my computer it (almost) works! I can Cmd+Click on SliderStyle to jump to the enum as in the video. No need to use any “juce::” prefix. It can be rather very long the first time (about 10 seconds). Note that until last weeks i didn’t use auto-completion ; I can not say what is normal or not. And frankly it is sometimes so slooooow (or simply broken) that it is not usable at all. I switched it off after few days.
