Android Code Snippet [B4X][Library] A solution to easily add your own code snippets?

EDIT:

pliroforikos said:

How wonderful, can you please give us an full example with b4xpages?

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Attached MySnippets.b4xlib and instructions about how you can add your own code snippets (see them after the line of asterisks in this post)
Watch the animated gif in post #7 to see how to use this library.

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A little while ago I wrote:

LucaMs said:

A great feature: you can add comment lines to your methods (Subs) that contain code that you can copy and paste; even many lines of code.

B4X:

' This routine is useful to...
' Example:
'<code>
' here many "ready" code lines that can be easily copied and pasted by just one click.
'</code>
Public Sub DoSomething
End Sub

I love it!

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An idea is coming to my mind (on which to study a little) ...

If I developed a library (B4Xlib?) that contained fake methods (Subs) for the sole purpose of getting source code from them, code snippets?

I might have a class for each category of snippets.

In case my headache goes away and I don't decide to go and buy a guillotine to get rid of the cervical headache problem once and for all ? , I'll do some implementation tests.

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How to add snippets to this MySnippets.b4xlib library.


Method A:

Directly using 7zip (or similar), without the need to unzip the library.
Just open the library with 7zip, double-click on a class file name, your default text editor will open, add/modify this file and save it.
(*) You can also create a new "category class" (using your text editor or one B4X IDE) and then drag it on 7zip - again having it open as just written.


Method B:

Using the B4XPages project attached, MySnippetsClasses. Edit its classes, add snippet-routines (take as example Erel's Sub TextToBitmap, which is in clsB4XViews class),
(*) add a new "category class".


(*) If you create a new "category class", you must declare and create an instance of it in the "platform main class", as in:



clsB4A is one of the four "platform main class" (there are: clsB4J, clsB4I and clsB4X).
For example, if you create a "category class" that contains animation snippets, you could create a clsAnimations class, then you should:

Add to Sub Class_Globals:
Public Animations As clsAnimations

Add to Public Sub Intialize:
Animations.Initialize


Note that I haven't B4i. If you open B4i MySnippetsClasses project, you should add (menu Project - Add Existing Modules) to it the clsB4I*.bas (select "Copy to project folder") and the clsB4X*.bas (select "Link - relative path").


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Note:
if you use 7zip as suggested in "method A", this (MySnippets.b4xlib) can be a useful library, but a well done tool, perhaps developed with B4J, with which to manage a SQLite database of snippets would probably be a better choice. I think some already exist on this site.
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It is not unlikely that this is all a bit too abstruse and that I will attach the wrong files. After all it's late at night, it's about 2:30 A.M. and... I'm already sleeping, while typing ??

If you want, you can also throw everything in your trash: luckily for you it's free