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ajtruckle
Ketchup Master
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 Posted - Apr 07 2005 : 03:00:03 AM
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At the moment, when I do things like:
if(xxxx)
{
}
etc..
I would prefer:
if( xxxx )
{
}
I like a space after the ( and before the ). Can that be changed?
I have only just started using the trial version.
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SvenC
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Apr 07 2005 : 03:51:10 AM
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If you are talking about the autotext option then open the VAX options dialog. Choose AutoText/Templates. Choose your language, e.g. C/C++. You'll find a line if: Followed by the text to automatically enter when that autotext entry is accepted. Change "if (-?)" to "if( -? )" and you should be fine.
If you speak of general reformatting of your source: that is a job VS.NET is doing not VAX and I don't know of a way that VS.Net would do the above. Its comming for C# in VS2005 but I think it is not there for C/C++, yet.
You might try to do this with macros but that could get a challenging task  |
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jpizzi
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ajtruckle
Ketchup Master
81 Posts |
Posted - Apr 08 2005 : 4:44:30 PM
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Thank you, I will look.
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Apr 09 2005 : 02:20:45 AM
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The Autotext-Feature of Visual Assist X is extremely strong... you can achieve almost everything with it.
You may find some guidance/ideas about the Autotext-Feature in this Thread. |
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ajtruckle
Ketchup Master
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Posted - Apr 09 2005 : 08:03:20 AM
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I got it working. My next question is when I am typing a function name and it adds the () at the end of the function. If it has parameters, I want the space after and before the brackets too.
I am not sure which entries to adjust for that.
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Apr 09 2005 : 08:42:14 AM
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That's found in the Options of VAX:
Text Editor -> Correction -> Insert () and closing })] and put X spaces between methodname and () |
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ajtruckle
Ketchup Master
81 Posts |
Posted - Apr 10 2005 : 04:21:07 AM
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Unless I missunderstand that option setting, I am not sure if it is what I am referring to.
If I have a method that takes one parameter, at the moment it would end up as:
Method(parameter)
But I would like:
Method( parameter )
It seems your option would do:
Method (parameter)
It is not a hardship, but I am just curious because I can set these things for if, while etc..
Side question, how do I copy these settings to my other PC? Do I copy my cpp.tpl file....? |
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Apr 10 2005 : 05:36:22 AM
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Your assumption about the Option is right.
You have to distinguish between Autotext and Completion.
That Option-setting refers to the Suggestion/Completion of Method-Names and automatically adding brackets to it...
Autotext has precedence over any other suggestion listbox.
Because you have an entry for "if" in the Autotext-template by default, you get an Autotext-Listbox when typing "if".
Since it is an Autotext, you can edit your Autotext-entry (like "if ( -? ) {\\n\\n}", for example).
However, if you add an entry to the Autotext-Templatefile, like
"Method ( -? )" or something like that, you will get the text you want, because as stated in the Manual, "Autotext has precedence over any other suggestion listbox."... So whenever there is an autotext-entry for what you just type, you will get that entry shown. Ctrl + Space then opens a completion listbox.
I do not know if you get parameter listing when doing so...
There are no entries for Method-Names, cause they come from a completion-listbox.
You may persuade the dev-team to alter the option a bit (to let you have the space between bracket and first parameter), but I don't think they'll implement that... but I can also be wrong on that one.
In order to get "your" Autotext-templates to antoher PC, simply copy all files from \\Visual Assist X\\Templates into the same folder on the destination pc. |
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