Script Editor: Basic Code Formatter Plugin – Arma Reforger

Basic Code Formatter
Script Editor plugin
Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + K Ctrl + Alt + ⇧ Shift + K (forced)
A plugin to help formatting code and following conventions and good practices
File: SCR_ScriptTemplatePlugin.c

Basic Code Formatter is a plugin that helps formatting code to Bohemia Interactive standards as well as warns for bad practice.

It features:

• General space formatting
• Line end trimming
• Indentation fix from spaces to tabs
• Method separator fix
• Auto line end at the end of the file
• Scripting prefix check
• Batch processing (all addon scripts at once)
• The option to only formats modified lines (if using SVN/Git)
• Bad practice warnings
• A demo mode to practice in read-only.

Usage

It is triggered by Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + K; depending on the selected options, it will either process the current file or the selected addon's files.

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Ctrl + Alt + ⇧ Shift + K can be used to force formatting of all the current file's lines.

Features

Modification

It can:

• trim line ends (trailing spaces and tabs)
• fix indentation (turn four spaces into a tab, remove extra spaces)
• auto-format method separators - all it takes is //--- three dashes
• do general formatting:
  • remove semicolons

after a class-closing bracket

• • if( / while( / foreach(, etc
  • double spaces, double semicolons, capital NULL, etc
    
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    See SCR_BasicCodeFormatter.GeneralFormatting().
• add a final line return to the file

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The plugin does not format comment or string content.

Warnings

It warns about:

• wrong syntax (e.g new ref)
• improvable syntax (e.g array<string> strings = new array<string>(); can be reduced to array<string> strings = {};)
• multiple empty lines
• usage of the auto and autoptr keywords
• divisions that could be multiplications (e.g value / 2 is value * 0.5), as multiplications are usually cheaper in term of CPU
• unbracketed loops (if, for, foreach, while)
• if one-liners - always put the "then" part on a new line
• badly named variables and constants (e.g string m_iValue where the prefix for string is s - see Values - String)
• ScriptInvoker direct usage (see ScriptInvoker Usage)
• a forgotten Print() call (a Print without log level is considered a temporary debug one)
• non-tag-prefixed classes/enums (e.g EMyEnum vs TAG_EMyEnum)

Example

Before	After
class abc:Managed // must warn for non-prefixed class + must space around ':' { [Attribute()]; // must remove the semicolon protected ScriptInvokerVoid Event_OnSomething; protected static string m_sValue3; // must fix the separator (below) //--- protected void Method() { // must replace 5 spaces by one tab if(true ) return; // must reformat the if and warn about one-liner // must warn about two empty lines (below) // must remove trailing empty space (below) } // must remove the final semicolon below }; // must add a line return (below)	class abc : Managed // must warn for non-prefixed class + must space around ':' { [Attribute()] // must remove the semicolon protected ScriptInvokerVoid Event_OnSomething; protected static string m_sValue; // must fix the separator (below) //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ protected void Method() { // must replace 5 spaces by one tab if (true) return; // must reformat the if and warn about one-liner // must warn about two empty lines (below) // must remove trailing empty space (below) } // must remove the final semicolon below } // must add a line return (below)
Changelog
SCRIPT  : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SCRIPT  : SCR_BasicCodeFormatterPluginExample.c - 7 lines changed, 1× line trimming, 1× indent fix(es) at line(s) 11, 5 formattings, 1 end spaces trimming, 1 4-spaces indent -> tabs replaced, 1 space(s) in indentation removed, 1 method separators fixed, added final newline (read: 3 ms, format: 83 ms, diff: 81 ms - total: 167 ms) SCRIPT  : Checking all 20 lines (100% of the file) SCRIPT  : 1× multiple consecutive empty lines found at line(s) 14 - leave only one SCRIPT  : 2× badly-named variables found at line(s) 5-6 - use proper prefixes: m_s for ResourceName/string, m_v for vectors, NO m_p, CASED_CONSTS, etc SCRIPT  : 1× non-prefixed class/enum found at line(s) 1 - classes and enums should be prefixed; see the settings to setup accepted prefixes (current SCR_)