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A1880

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Sunday, July 19th 2009, 3:27pm

VB6 editing features missing in Jabaco: automatic case changes in variable names; automatic space insertion

Hi,
VB6 changes the case of variable names to yield a unified source appearing.
This feature was raising some dispute, but I would love to have it back in Jabaco. In the same direction goes the auto-insertion of space characters. From "a=b+1", VB6 would automatically make "a = b + 1". Likewise, VB6 adds spaces in numerous other places. Perhaps a matter of taste, but very helpful for me!

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Sunday, July 19th 2009, 9:22pm

Hello,

I have thought about that today :) that would really be visually nice.

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Sunday, July 19th 2009, 9:40pm

Hi A1880,



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VB6 changes the case of variable names ... but I would love to have it back in Jabaco

I totally agree with you in this point, imho this is one of the most important features of VB and I love it either, but of course one can also go without it, as Jabaco does, if you force yourself to spell your variable names correctly.





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From "a=b+1", VB6 would automatically make "a = b + 1".

i have a love-hate-relationship to this feature. OK somehow it could be useful, but in VB you can not switch this off, and so often it is not possible to have every equalsign "=" below the other like you would do it in mathematic notation.


What about making this feature switchable on/off?

suggestion: (just like the commenting-button) if you select the desired lines, Jabaco could do the automatic formatting, or you could switch it on permanent.

other suggestion, what about to exclude the equal-sign from the automatic formatting with spaces?





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Tuesday, July 21st 2009, 9:48am

i have a love-hate-relationship to this feature. OK somehow it could be useful, but in VB you can not switch this off, and so often it is not possible to have every equalsign "=" below the other like you would do it in mathematic notation.


What about making this feature switchable on/off?

suggestion: (just like the commenting-button) if you select the desired lines, Jabaco could do the automatic formatting, or you could switch it on permanent.

other suggestion, what about to exclude the equal-sign from the automatic formatting with spaces?





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The feature is no doubt a necessity for those of us who insist on cleanliness and systematic things, and even switching it off for mathematical issues is desirable at times. There are millions of things one Manuel has to fix, so perhaps we need to help with priorities as well. Would it be a good idea to maintain a list of things that need to be improved or corrected? Manuel can then assign a priority to some of those things and decide to include them in subsequent versions.

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Saturday, August 15th 2009, 2:23am

Yes, automatic case standardization of variables names (as initially declared within each scope) is an excellent suggestion. Same thing for the suggestion to standardized spacing around "=" symbols regardless of how hastily the programmer coded it. This enhances program readability and organization. There may be other circumstances where automatic cleanup would be useful.

If these ideas could be implemented as selectable features within the IDE, then everyone could tailor their code as they wished.

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Monday, November 2nd 2009, 1:19pm

Autocomplete issue

It seems to me that the autocomplete function activated by the CTRL+Space keyboard combination is not suggesting (as it was in VB6) the user defined variables, functions, procedures or objects names on the form. Otherwise, I enjoyed the editor (I'm still in my honeymoon with Jabaco). Hope I'm proven wrong.

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