Posted 19 years ago by billb - Software Craftsman, Yye Software
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Hello. Has anyone used the smart indent features recently? I searched the forums for previous posts and found one that looked like it was for an old version since the example didn't even compile.

I also didn't have any luck finding examples in the documentation or in the example program. Could someone provide a bit more insight? (I'm doing it for C# and VB.NET if that helps).

Thanks.

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Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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The sample project has some code commented out for the event but you essentially just say how many tabs to indent in the e.IndentAmount property of the SmartIndent event arguments.


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Posted 19 years ago by billb - Software Craftsman, Yye Software
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I imagine that there is some way to determine what was typed on the previous line to figure out if I need to indent or not (yes, I'm showing my greeness here).
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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I believe the SmartIndent only fires if the user presses Enter.

We would like to have more flexible auto-formatting support in the future and are open to all ideas anyone wants to post.


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Posted 19 years ago by billb - Software Craftsman, Yye Software
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Well for me at this point, the Enter is perfectly fine. What I was looking for is some sample code on how to determine when to indent.
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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We don't have any on hand, however what you'd do is probably get a TextStream (via Document.GetTextStream) for the current offset and then iterate backwords to see if there is a { (like for C#) that would cause an indent.

By default the IndentAmount will be set to whatever the tab indent of the previous line is.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 26 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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