Add IDE preference to indent Case clauses inside Select Case

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I just submitted a request for a Xojo enhancement:

Add IDE preference to indent Case clauses inside Select Case

Does anyone else agree with this request or am I the odd-man-out?

-Wes

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No, you’re not the odd man out. I prefer the indent too.

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While I support your feature request, I’d personally like to see a complete overhaul of the indentation system in the IDE. I’m not a fan of the way it forces you to indent the way Xojo wants you to indent.

Sometimes I want extra indents on a block of code to make it stand out to me. But nope, neither the spacebar nor the tab key do anything at the start of a line.

It really should all be up to the developer how they want to manage their indents, or even if they don’t want indents at all (which might actually prove you’re a serial killer lol).

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You can, but it’s a bit annoying.

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Start the line with any character other than space or tab, then space out your desired indentation. Compiles just fine because whitespace is stripped during compilation anyway

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@Anthony_G_Cyphers Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I tried what I think you suggested and I was in fact able to indent to my liking but after saving and reloading the project all of the indentations I created were removed and the code was back to Xojo standard indentation.

-Wes

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@Christian_Wheel I too would like the freedom to indent any way I chose but if Xojo doesn’t want to allow for that option then I still have to question why every other code structure in Xojo appears to obey the parent/child relationship except the ‘Select Case’ structure. That one exception makes no sense to me.

-Wes

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You probably have the reformat code setting enabled. That, I think, might strip it. I can’t look right now as I’m out for the weekend, but I often do this and save/reload without issue to draw my eye back to something specific I want to review later.

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I’ve thought about this a bit, and I believe the thinking is it’s similar to the IF…ELSE…END block. While I can see that, it still bugs me that that the CASE statements aren’t indented.

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To me, the cases aren’t children of the select, they’re directives. I don’t like the way it looks at all. :upside_down_face:

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If it’s any consolation, Xcode does the same auto-indenting when it comes to switch case (the equivalent to Select Case).