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alanchen
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Posted - Sep 24 2014 :  12:21:50 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
With Visual Assistant, is it possible for it to auto-generate a comment for a function/file or a class based on a given template?
Thanks

feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 24 2014 :  9:07:53 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
For functions, use the Document Method command:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W161

For a file, you probably want to use a VA Snippet here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W171

and inside the snippet you can use various reserved strings, given here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W262

which lets you pick up things like the current file name, which you may well want.

I can provide more guidance if you can post some examples of what you are trying to do.

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alanchen
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Posted - Sep 25 2014 :  10:28:19 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sorry but in my Visual Assiast, then I click "Refractor" menu, all items are disabled except for "Rename files" and "Create Files...", why?

I have already opened Visual C++ project and VA is enabled as well.

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quote:
Originally posted by feline

For functions, use the Document Method command:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W161

For a file, you probably want to use a VA Snippet here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W171

and inside the snippet you can use various reserved strings, given here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W262

which lets you pick up things like the current file name, which you may well want.

I can provide more guidance if you can post some examples of what you are trying to do.


Edited by - alanchen on Sep 25 2014 10:29:20 AM
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feline
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Posted - Sep 25 2014 :  2:19:16 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The available refactoring commands are effected by the location of the caret, they are context aware. This sounds like your caret is in white space. Try placing your caret into a function name, on a function declaration or implementation. Document Method should now be available.

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alanchen
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Posted - Sep 26 2014 :  7:07:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have tried the feature and it works perfectly.

Two more questions:

1. Is it possible to insert the month as english apprevication? For example, Sep, Oct, instead of using the month abbrev in locale, since it is not a good practice to insert non-English language in the .cpp file.

2. Is it possible to insert the current user name? Since it is very common to add the current user as the author name in the function comment block.

Thanks

Edited by - alanchen on Sep 26 2014 7:07:11 PM
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feline
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Posted - Sep 26 2014 :  9:01:40 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Point 1, unfortunately no, but that is an interesting point, I have put in a feature request for this, to add reserved strings that would make this possible:

case=85291

Point 2, for the current user name, just use %USERNAME% to insert this environment variable, as explained here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W262

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alanchen
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Posted - Sep 26 2014 :  10:28:00 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Seems %USERNAME% is not documented in http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W262 ? Please add it so that others can utilize this as well.
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sean
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USA
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Posted - Sep 26 2014 :  11:01:50 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is the page feline meant to direct you to for environment variables:
http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W263
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feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 29 2014 :  09:04:58 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My mistake, the link Sean posted was the one I had looked up for you, but somehow I managed to post the wrong link. Hopefully this helps to explain how to use environment variables in your snippets, including Document Method. If you have any problems with this then please just ask.

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sean
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USA
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Posted - Apr 10 2015 :  11:28:12 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
case=85291 is fixed in build 2062
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