[Bluej-discuss] formatter extension?

[Olan, Michael]

For awhile I was using DrJava. It has a few nice features that BlueJ
doesn't have, one of which is a code formatter. Nothing fancy, just
fixes indentation, which is generally good enough for beginners. But
students have no excuse for badly formatted source code when it only
takes a click to fix.

--
Michael Olan
Richard Stockton College
 

Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:50:22 -0700
From: John Dalbey <jdalbey at calpoly.edu>
Subject: [Bluej-discuss] formatter extension?
To: bluej-discuss at bluej.org
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Hello BlueJ Fans,

I love the fact that BlueJ now has a Checkstyle extension.
But wouldn't it be great if BlueJ would automatically format your source

code the way you like it?

Do you think there would be any interest in a code formatter extension,
something like can be found in Eclipse?  One specifies one's preferences

for source code style, chooses the "format" option, and voila,
the code is reformatted according to the style. 

There are also several plug-ins for Eclipse that enhance upon
the built in formatter.  I had a brainstorm of grabbing one of
the open source plug-ins and converting it to a BlueJ extension.


Sound useful?

--john



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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:51:43 +1000
From: Hedley Finger <hfinger at handholding.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Bluej-discuss] formatter extension?
To: General discussion for users of BlueJ <bluej-discuss at bluej.org>
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John:

At Saturday, 13/10/2007, 01:50 PM;, you wrote:
>One specifies one's preferences
>for source code style, chooses the "format" option, and voila,
>the code is reformatted according to the style.
>
>There are also several plug-ins for Eclipse that enhance upon
>the built in formatter.  I had a brainstorm of grabbing one of
>the open source plug-ins and converting it to a BlueJ extension.

I am using Netbeans 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition and it has a similar nifty 
function.  Hack away at your source code, stuff up the indenting, 
mark previously unmarked blocks with {..} pairs, then press 
Crtl-Shift-f and all is pretty again.  So you have my vote.

Perhaps when I understand Java enough, I will build an extension that 
creates a navigation window like Netbeans: a list of all variables 
and methods in a pane; just click one to instantly jump to the spot 
in the source code instead of endless scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
...

Regards,
Hedley


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