IDE & Code Formatting

General
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Does anyone else think some of the formatting style that the ide does is odd?

Take indenting for example.

The ide enforces something (good) like this:

If myValue = True Then doSomething End If

But for other things it doesn’t indent and worse, doesn’t allow the user to indent:

Select Case myValue Case "apple" doSomething End Select

This indenting example is not consistent with the first behaviour.

Select Case myValue Case "apple" doSomething End Select

I can’t see any way to control this behaviour in the IDE preferences…

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  • You cannot control the formatting (unfortuantly), would be nice to increase the indent value
  • formatting (Select Statements for example) are consistent at least with how Xcode formats (I’d prefer CASE to be indented as well)
3

you can have your own reformat script
see example here : https://forum.xojo.com/47120-reformat-code-script

but beware of it :
https://forum.xojo.com/51048-bad-autocompletion-when-standardize-code-is-checked

more about it :
https://forum.xojo.com/conversations/all?search=reformatcode

documentation reference :
https://documentation.xojo.com/topics/code_management/custom_code_reformatting.html

4

Good to know @Jean-Yves Pochez - thanks. I’ll look into it.