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Applicable Environment
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- Topic: Adding indent to Momentics IDE
- SDP: 6.4.1
- Host: Any supported host
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Recommendation________________________________________________________________________
When working with code that someone else wrote it can be hard enough to understand the logic behind it. Especially when comments are missing and the used names are ambiguous. In such cases the formatting of the code can be another distraction, yet this can be helped by using a Pretty Printer. The de facto standard for these tools is the GNU indent (
http://www.gnu.org/software/indent/). To make Eclipse/Momentics aware of this tool I installed it as an external tool.
First install indent on your machine.
$ sudo apt-get install indent
pretty much did the trick for me. Then open The IDE and select Run->External Tools->External Tools... from the Menu. Now Create a new Program, Name it 'indent', and put the path to the executable in the Location tab. I.e. /usr/bin/indent. The working directory is ${container_loc} and the argument is at least ${resource_name}. In the Refresh tab select to refresh the selected resource, so the result is visible. The indent options I am using are:
-bad -bap -bbb -bbo -nbc -nbfda -br -brs -cdw -ce -di18 -i4 -npcs -npsl
-lp -ip0 -npcs -nsaf -nsai -nsaw -nhnl -ut -prs -sbi4 -sc -sob -ss -ts4
This creates code that looks like it's following SUN's Java Styleguide. I can't deny my roots after all.
To invoke indent select the codefile that needs to be formatted and select 'indent' from the external tool. After the first call, it will be automagically called upon clicking the 'External Tools' icon on the menubar.
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NOTE:
This entry has been validated against the SDP version listed above. Use
caution when considering this advice for any other SDP version. For
supported releases, please reach out to QNX Technical Support if you have any questions/concerns. ________________________________________________________________________
