UserCall Tips Not Working

[ericbartha]

Hello everyone,

I am new to AutoIt, I've been using it for about 3 weeks now, so please excuse any ignorance on my part.

Anyways, I have created a UDF and am trying to get the ToolTip and syntax highlighting to work but have been very unsuccessful thus far. I created a User Include Folder under the config options and followed the instructions listed on the "User CallTip Manager" help page. I can see the UDF name, syntax, and desctription when I click the "View Tips" button but then when I go to use the UDF, it still does not work. I have restarted SciTe after saving all of these changes too.

Can anyone think of a reason why this still would not be working?

Note: I am on a work computer running Win7 Professional and the User Include Folder is a directory on a shared drive, if that matters.

Thank you in advance, everyone!

Edited January 22, 2016 by ericbartha

[Jos]

You do have a file open with a .au3 file extension ...right?

What is the exact content of %localappdata%\AutoIt v3\SciTE\au3.user.calltips.api ?

Jos

[ericbartha]

Thanks for your fast reply, Jos.

Yes, I do have an .au3 file open.

When I open...    %appdata%\Local\AutoIt v3\    the only subfolder there is Aut2exe, which is empty. (I enabled hidden files/folders and still nothing.)

I take it this may be my issue, but I have no clue why.

[Jos]

Have you used the SciTE4AutoIt3 installer to install SciTE with its extra's? 

EDIT: where is your SciTEUser.properties located? (just open via SciTE menu option:  Options/ Open User options file.)

Jos

Edited January 22, 2016 by Jos

[ericbartha]

I do not know if install SciTE with extra's was used/enabled. I am new to this company and my workstation was configured for me. I can see about reinstalling SciTE.

The SciTEUser.properties file is located at:    C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\SciTEUser.properties      and when I open it there are only two lines...

import au3.UserUdfs
import au3.keywords.user.abbreviations

Thoughts - or should I just try reinstalling?

Edited January 22, 2016 by ericbartha

[Jos]

I've moved away from installing it in that directory by default when the installer is used as the newer OSes (win7+)  by default have no write access in the programs directory.

What version of SciTE are you on?

Jos

Edited January 22, 2016 by Jos

[ericbartha]

Understood. I still do not have admin rights here yet, so I will have to have one of the guys in the department take a look and reinstall it to a different directory.

I am on version 3.5.4.0, is this the latest release?

[Jos]

You are one version behind, but the changes I referred to where made a year before that release.

It can all work fine when they've installed the ZIP file version (portable) but then it does require you to have write access to all its files or else it;s a little hard to save the changes.

Jos

[ericbartha]

Understood. I will pass this along to one of the sysAdmins and see what they come back with.

Thanks a ton, Jos!