Hint/autocomplete thing stays too long on the screen

[Jan148]

So, I'm studying computer sciences and we've just started learning C. The editor we're using is Codelite 5.4 (the instructor asked us explicitly to not update to a newer version). It's been a lot of fun but there's been this one thing that Codelite does that is really getting on my nerves. When I type some code, there's often a kind of hint/autocomplete thing that pops on the screen and that does not want to go away, even preventing navigation with the arrow keys. So, how do I get this away? I made a screenshot for more clarification, it's the grey box that says 'const *char, ...'.

Thanks for your help!

[eranif]

5.4 is very old and we don't support it anymore.
Please upgrade to 9.1

Eran

[Jan148]

5.4 is very old and we don't support it anymore.
Please upgrade to 9.1

Eran

As I stated in the opening post, our instructor asked to NOT update... is there any way to get this thing away? It might just be something in the options menu that I overlooked?

[DavidGH]

Hi,

There was indeed an annoying issue with tooltips a few years ago. IIRC it was fixed in code, or maybe even in wxWidgets code; but that's no help to you unless you do update.

One way to avoid the particular tip that you show is to turn them off; nowadays that's in Setting > Code Completion > Display type info tooltips, but you may find it elsewhere in 5.4.

When I did get a sticky tooltip, I found it sometimes went away if I switched briefly to a different virtual desktop. YMMV of course.

Regards,

David

[Jan148]

Hi,

There was indeed an annoying issue with tooltips a few years ago. IIRC it was fixed in code, or maybe even in wxWidgets code; but that's no help to you unless you do update.

One way to avoid the particular tip that you show is to turn them off; nowadays that's in Setting > Code Completion > Display type info tooltips, but you may find it elsewhere in 5.4.

When I did get a sticky tooltip, I found it sometimes went away if I switched briefly to a different virtual desktop. YMMV of course.

Regards,

David

I can't find anything about code completion in the options
I guess that means I'll have to try and live with it, or try to update anyway despite the instructor asking not to. Thanks for your help anyway.

[DavidGH]

I can't find anything about code completion in the options

I just warmed up an old ubuntu lucid virtualbox guest. In that it was in Settings > Tags settings > Display and behaviour.

or try to update anyway despite the instructor asking not to.

Perhaps you could update your instructor

[Jan148]

I can't find anything about code completion in the options

I just warmed up an old ubuntu lucid virtualbox guest. In that it was in Settings > Tags settings > Display and behaviour.

or try to update anyway despite the instructor asking not to.

Perhaps you could update your instructor

Thank you so much! Somehow overlooked that but those annoying popup boxes are now gone
And yes, perhaps I should do that