Programmatically call Code "AutoFormat" from the Tool?

dimkir

in Library and Tool Development • 1 month ago

When making Tool, I get Editor instance, which method (if there's any) would allow me to call this functionality of formatting the code?

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dimkir

1 month ago

Looks like I found the answer:

here's some pseudocode

class MyTool implements Tool
{
private Editor mEditor;
void init(Editor editor){
mEditor = editor;
}
/**
* This is called every time tool is picked from the menu.
* Let's make that every time you choose tool from the menu, it autoformats code in the current
* tab. (mimic behaviour similar to the behaviour of AutoFormat menu item, except but we don't
* bother about current selections and error checking.
*/
void run(){
Formatter codeFormatter = mEditor.createFormatter(); // returns instance of formtter.
String code = mEditor.getText(); // not sure about this line if it gets the code in editor.
// String code = mEditor.getSketch().getCurrentCode().toString(); // or maybe this one? .
String formattedCode = codeFormatter.format(code);
mEditor.setText(formattedCode);
}
} // class MyTool

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