The popup or tooltip information CodeMax displays in these four features is taken from an XML formatted memberlist file. gbXML can read memberlist files (*.mbr) from a user-defined folder and makes them available for use by all languages.

Each member of a memberlist has the following attributes:

• Name - Name of the member
• Prototype/Declaration - Appears in Parameter Info tooltips and QuickInfo tooltips
• Icon Image ID - Zero-based index of icon image to display in the left margin
• Help String - Description to display in a tooltip

Here's an example of a memberlist XML file:

  <memberlist name="HTML Tags">
	<member name="a" help="anchor"/>
	<member name="abbr" help="abbreviated form (e.g., WWW, HTTP, etc.)"/>
	<member name="acronym" help="acronym"/>
	<member name="address" help="information on author"/>
	<member name="applet" help="Java applet"/>
	<member name="area" help="client-side image map area"/>
	<member name="b" help="bold text style"/>
	<member name="base" help="document base URI"/>
	<member name="basefont" help="base font size"/>
	<member name="bdo" help="BiDi over-ride"/>
	<member name="big" help="large text style"/>
  </memberlist>

Using Memberlists
To automatically invoke the ListMembers command after a token is typed (e.g. a period), the token must be bound to the ListMembers command in the language definition as in this XML example:

    <tokens>
    <token action="ListMembers">.</token>
    </tokens>

The memberlist popup window will be automatically dismissed when another ListMembers command or ParameterInfo command is invoked, or when a CommitMember action command is encountered as in the following example:

<tokens>
<token action="CommitMember">;</token>
</tokens>

Four commonly used action values include the following, corresponding to the Code Completion features as discussed above:

• ParameterInfo
  
• QuickInfo
  
• CommitMember
  
• ListMembers