Programming question

Gary R Wheeler

Are we going to have to kill you to make you stop?

Software Zen: delete this;

Ryan Binns

Shog9 wrote:

I carefully avoid ever programming while using a german keyboard layout. You might think this would be fairly trivial, considering i'm not living in Germany, nor do i work with any german-language programmers. You'd be right.

Yes, thankyou for that remarkable insight :rolleyes:

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Ryan Binns

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

Yeah, I still think macros are great as long as they aren't abused.

You don't consider your example macro abuse? :omg:

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Jeremy Falcon

Ryan Binns wrote:

You don't consider your example macro abuse?

No I don't. It's not so much what you do with them that's abusive, but more so how much you rely on them and the intent that is. If there's no clean/quick/portable way to achieve the bracket replacement that he's trying to do so he can program more effeciently, but yet macros offer a simple solution then it's not abusive. OTOH if he's trying to make Pascal syntax out of C/C++ just because it's neato, then that's very abusive (and I've seen people attempt this).

Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)

S Douglas

Greeeg wrote:

Macro

Thats pretty easy,

Sub CurlyBrackets()
    Dim sCurly As String
    sCurly = "{ " & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & " }"
    ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = sCurly
End Sub

Just map that to a key combo and away you go.

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

S Douglas

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

If there's no clean/quick/portable way to achieve the bracket replacement that he's trying to do so he can program more effeciently, but yet macros offer a simple solution then it's not abusive.

There is a way, use a VS macro, they are easy to create (heck VS has a macro recorder) and assign it to a key combo. Done, no worries about someone else looking at your code wondering WTF is BO & BC for.

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Jeremy Falcon

S Douglas wrote:

There is a way, use a VS macro

If VS is your only environment then yeah I totally agree. Go with that instead.

Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)

Anders Molin

I use a Danish keyboard and kinda have the same problem. I solved it by making a simple macro in VS, so when I press ctrl-æ VS change the line, insert a { change the line again and insert a } and move the caret to be right after the {. Works great :)

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S Douglas

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

If VS is your only environment

Now that you mention it, he didn't specify what enviroment he was working in, much less which version. Kinda important. :shrugs: all yea can do is offer a suggestion.

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Lost User

Works like a charm, thanks a lot! :rose: regards

Lost User

Yeah, I from now on use this solution, and it works perfectly :) regards

S Douglas

Greeeg wrote:

Works like a charm

:cool: Your welcome

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Lost User

Just macro it #define IF if{ #define ENDIF } #define ELSE }else{ and so on and so on. Eventually, it'lll look like VB! ha ha!

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