Terms and Conditions

• Use at your own risk.
• Requires Eclipse 3.3.0 or greater.
• The software will create a file called quack.log in the root directory of every Eclipse project you use it in.

Instructions

• open Eclipse
• open the Help menu
• open About Eclipse SDK or About Eclipse Platform
• look for a version number like 3.3.0
• if the version is less than 3.3.0, download eclipse here

• open Eclipse version 3.3.0 or greater
• open the Help menu
• open the Software Updates submenu
• select Find and Install...

• choose Search for new features to install
• click Next >
• click New Remote Site...
• enter the name: Quack
• enter the URL: http://glittle.org/quack
• click OK

• make sure Quack has a check next to it in the list
• click Finish
• expand the items in the tree view until you see Quack Plug-in 0.x.x
• check the box next to Quack Plug-in 0.x.x
• click Next >

• accept the license agreement by clicking the radio button
• click Next >
• click Finish
• click Install
• click Yes to restart Eclipse

• open a .java file
• take an existing expression, like rc.getRobotType(), and replace it with keywords from the expression, like rc type
• press Ctrl-Space, as if you were going to use auto-complete

• if your desired expression is at the top of the list, press Enter to choose it
• if your desired expression is lower in the list, press Tab, and then use the arrow keys to select it, and then press Enter
• if your desired expression is not in the list, try adding more keywords, and pressing Ctrl-Space again
• if your desired expression never comes up, try using Quack to guess a different expression (and read the notes below)

Notes

• to invoke the system on a single keyword, put a space after it, and then press Ctrl-Space
• if nothing happens when you press Ctrl-Space, and you think it should, check quack.log for an error (if you see a stack-trace at the bottom, there was an error, and you can cut/paste/send it to me)
• it will only consider two levels of nested expressions, like a(b(c())), but not a(b(c(d())))
• it will probably not guess a field or method from a class you have not imported
• it roughly considers only methods and fields for classes that you reference in the current file, as well as classes referenced as the return type of those methods and fields
• please send feedback/questions to glittle@gmail.com