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[quote][i]Originally posted by charleyb[/i]
[br]I *love* Visual Assist X, and recognize what it's doing (parsing and formatting) is incredibly difficult.

[b]WISH:[/b] Auto-line breaks for function definitions.

EXPLANATION:  Function definitions that include very long class names, and/or very long function names are more easily understood when "line-breaks" are automatically inserted between the return type, class name, function name, and parameters.  This is especially true for "template" classes that can get quite long.

[i]The following is our preferred layout for class-function-definitions, which we arrange "by-hand", but would prefer to be an automatic option through a future version of Visual Assist X)(Visual Assist X 10.6.1856.0 built 2011.08.24):[/i]

[code]
void
MyVeryLongClassName
::myVeryLongMemberFunctionName(
  int my_very_long_parameter_name,
  const SomeOtherClassWithLongName& another_long_parameter_name) const
{
  // ...
}

template<class DERIVED,class RANGE_TYPE,RANGE_TYPE RANGE_TYPE_MIN,RANGE_TYPE RANGE_TYPE_MAX>
const bool
MyRangeTemplate<DERIVED,RANGE_TYPE,RANGE_TYPE_MIN,RANGE_TYPE_MAX>
::getFlagIsValueInRange(
  const RANGE_TYPE& value_to_test) const
{
  // ...
}
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charleyb	Posted - Sep 18 2011 : 10:21:27 AM I love Visual Assist X, and recognize what it's doing (parsing and formatting) is incredibly difficult. WISH: Auto-line breaks for function definitions. EXPLANATION: Function definitions that include very long class names, and/or very long function names are more easily understood when "line-breaks" are automatically inserted between the return type, class name, function name, and parameters. This is especially true for "template" classes that can get quite long. The following is our preferred layout for class-function-definitions, which we arrange "by-hand", but would prefer to be an automatic option through a future version of Visual Assist X)(Visual Assist X 10.6.1856.0 built 2011.08.24): void MyVeryLongClassName ::myVeryLongMemberFunctionName( int my_very_long_parameter_name, const SomeOtherClassWithLongName& another_long_parameter_name) const { // ... } template<class DERIVED,class RANGE_TYPE,RANGE_TYPE RANGE_TYPE_MIN,RANGE_TYPE RANGE_TYPE_MAX> const bool MyRangeTemplate<DERIVED,RANGE_TYPE,RANGE_TYPE_MIN,RANGE_TYPE_MAX> ::getFlagIsValueInRange( const RANGE_TYPE& value_to_test) const { // ... }
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feline	Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 2:42:06 PM If you just want the code to be visually wrapped, without altering the structure of the file, you can turn on the IDE setting: IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Word wrap Unfortunately if you want the file actually reformatted to word wrap the code, VA does not do code formatting its self, we simply ask the IDE to do the code formatting, and rely on your IDE settings for this. This FAQ entry links to a couple of different code formatting tools that you might want to look into, but I am not sure if either of them do this: http://docs.wholetomato.com?W147

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