Setting EGL content-assist preferences

You can set basic and advanced preferences for EGL content assist.

Do as follows:
  1. From the main menu, click Window > Preferences. A Preferences window is displayed.
  2. From the navigation tree, expand EGL > Editor and click Content Assist. A Content Assist pane is displayed.
  3. In the Content Assist pane, do as follows:
    1. Set or clear the Enable auto activation check box. To keep the content-assist popup from being displayed each time you type a period after a variable name or other symbol, clear this check box. Regardless of this setting, content assist is available to you when you press Ctrl-Shift in the EGL editor.
    2. In the Auto activation delay field, type the number of milliseconds that you want the editor to delay before displaying the content-assist popup. The default is 500.
  4. To configure the behavior of the content assist (Ctrl+Space) command, click Advanced under Content Assist in the Preferences menu and do as follows:
    1. To select the kinds of proposals to be contained in the default content assist list, select or clear the following check boxes in the Default Proposal Kinds list:
      • Keyword Proposals
      • Reference Proposals
      • Template Proposals
    2. In the Content assist cycling list, select the kinds of proposals that are cycled through when you invoke content assist repeatedly:
      • Keyword Proposals
      • Reference Proposals
      • Template Proposals
    3. To control the order for content assist cycling, select an item in the Content assist cycling list and click Up or Down.
  5. To save the changes and remain in the Preferences window, click Apply. To save the changes and exit the window, click OK.