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It so happens that I started my acquaintance with IDEs with Eclipse, NetBeans, Android Studio. And now I got to Visual Studio Code. A good IDE is supposed to offer only those properties that belong to a given class. Is it normal behavior that in the following code snippet VSCode offers a width property for ElevatedButton?

SizedBox(
  height: 50,
  width: 250,
  child: ElevatedButton(
      style: ElevatedButton.styleFrom(
        backgroundColor: Colors.deepPurple.withAlpha(400),
        shape: kRBorderShape,
      ),
      child: const Text('Barcode Scanner'),
      onPressed: () {}
  ),
),

It so happens that I started my acquaintance with IDEs with Eclipse, NetBeans, Android Studio. And now I got to Visual Studio Code. A good IDE is supposed to offer only those properties that belong to a given class. Is it normal behavior that in the following code snippet VSCode offers a width property for ElevatedButton?

SizedBox(
  height: 50,
  width: 250,
  child: ElevatedButton(
      style: ElevatedButton.styleFrom(
        backgroundColor: Colors.deepPurple.withAlpha(400),
        shape: kRBorderShape,
      ),
      child: const Text('Barcode Scanner'),
      onPressed: () {}
  ),
),

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• 1 code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/… the abc icon suggests this is a simple word completion not any specific property or method completion. Its acting as a simple autocomplete and not offering any specific properties – Suraj Rao Commented Feb 2 at 7:37
• @SurajRao then why doesn't it use property or method completion? Is it customizable? – rozerro Commented Feb 2 at 7:51
• 1 It should provide the suggestions provided you have the dart and flutter extensions installed and nothing is disabled in settings.json – Suraj Rao Commented Feb 2 at 8:05
• 1 @SurajRao Indeed, clearing the settings.json file solved the problem – rozerro Commented Feb 2 at 10:12
• your question is probably really "why does the flutter extension I'm using only ..." – starball Commented Feb 3 at 1:58

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You can check the differance between two images, The shape of the following suggestion is different from abc, abc is not property.