lcb file snippet for the Atom editor

[AndyP]

I've created a snippet for the Atom editor to make creating .lcb files a little easier

In Atom

(you need to have Peters packages installed first)

Go File>Open Your Snippets

Add the following to the file

'.source.iRev, .source.lcb':
'lcbtemplate':
'prefix': 'lcbt'
'body': '-- declaring extension as widget, followed by identifier\n
widget community.livecode.username.identifier\n
use com.livecode.canvas\n
use com.livecode.widget\n
use com.livecode.engine\n
metadata title is "title"\n
metadata author is "author"\n
metadata version is "1.0.0"\n
end widget'

Then save the snippets file

Create a new .lcb file

This must be saved in order for Atom to be able to associate the .lcb file with Peters packages.

In the new .lcb file type

lcbt and hit enter or the tab key or pick it from the auto-complete options

You will now get this added to your .lcb file

-- declaring extension as widget, followed by identifier
widget community.livecode.username.identifier
use com.livecode.canvas
use com.livecode.widget
use com.livecode.engine
metadata title is "title"
metadata author is "author"
metadata version is "1.0.0"
end widget

[trevordevore]

Thanks Andy!

[bn]

Hi Andy,

thank you for your snippet. It saves a lot of repetetive typing.

Although I had trouble installing it by copying the snippet from the forum using Safari on a Mac I managed when I copied your snippet from the digest of the use-list from the email.
Atom was complaining about an unexpected end of line. Comparing both texts in BBEdit did not give me a clue as to why.

Anyways, thank you again.

Kind regards
Bernd

[bn]

Hi Andy,

I like your idea so much that I added standard public handlers

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'.source.iRev, .source.lcb':
 'lcbtemplate':
   'prefix': 'lcbt'
   'body': '-- declaring extension as widget, followed by identifier\n
   widget community.livecode.username.identifier\n
   use com.livecode.canvas\n
   use com.livecode.widget\n
   use com.livecode.engine\n
   metadata title is "title"\n
   metadata author is "author"\n
   metadata version is "1.0.0"\n
   \n
   -- property yourProperty 	get mYourVariable	set yourSetCommand
   \n
   \n
   public handler OnLoad(in pProperties as Array)\n
   -- your code here\n
   put pProperties["myProperty"] into mMyVariable\n
   end handler\n
   \n
   public handler OnSave(out rProperties as Array)\n
   -- your code here\n
   put the empty array into rProperties\n
 	 put mMyVariable into rProperties["myProperty"]\n
 	 return rProperties\n
   end handler\n
   \n
   public handler OnCreate()\n
   -- your code here\n
   end handler\n
   \n
   public handler OnPaint()\n
   -- your code here\n
   end handler\n
   \n
   end widget'

Kind regards
Bernd

[AndyP]

Hi Bernd,

Thanks, I'll be using this version from now.

As a side to this I'm playing with pushing and pulling text from the LC editor to Atom which sort of works if this becomes stable I'll post a link to the scripts.

[Simon]

Hi Bernd,
I'm getting that "unexpected newline" from your script now.
I thought it was this

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-- property yourProperty    get mYourVariable   set yourSetCommand
\n

but no luck.

Simon

[bn]

Hi Simon,

here is the zipped snippets-file from Atom which on my Max is in an invisble folder right in
/users/theUser/.atom/snippets.cson

try to put it there.

This works for me if you open a new document and save it as xyz.lcb

then as AndyP explained type in the first line of the new document lcbt and then return or tab and it autofills with the snippet.

I have tried to find what is going on but have not succeeded, as stated above.

I hope the zipped file does the trick...

Kind regards

[Simon]

Thanks Bernd,
That worked perfectly!

Simon

[peter-b]

Hi Bernd,

Would you like to add these to my Atom package? I'm always keen to receive improvements!

[bn]

Hi Peter,

Would you like to add these to my Atom package? I'm always keen to receive improvements!

I would love to give that AndyP (Andy Piddock) gets the credit for this very nice idea to make a snippet for the header of a LCB file. I just expanded his idea.

Where do you want me to put it?

Kind regards
Bernd

[peter-b]

I would love to give that AndyP (Andy Piddock) gets the credit for this very nice idea to make a snippet for the header of a LCB file. I just expanded his idea.

Where do you want me to put it?

Please send me a patch or submit a pull request to my GitHub repository (no CLA is needed, it's a community project )

https://github.com/peter-b/atom-language-livecode

Thank you so much for contributing!

[monte]

Hi Folks

Nothing major to add but this version sorts out the indents and is a bit easier to edit:

EDIT

I had some more fun with this and this version will auto-select username first then you can tab to identifier, title etc.

I went looking for a way to define a variable somewhere central for author, username etc but it's not available yet. There appears to be some work going on for this but not yet complete: https://github.com/atom/snippets/pull/83

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'.source.iRev, .source.lcb':
 'lcbtemplate':
   'prefix': 'lcbt'
   'body': """
   -- declaring extension as widget, followed by identifier
   widget community.livecode.${1:username}.${2:identifier}
     use com.livecode.canvas
     use com.livecode.widget
     use com.livecode.engine

     metadata title is "${3:title}"
     metadata author is "${4:author}"
     metadata version is "${5:1.0.0}"

     -- property yourProperty 	get mYourVariable	set yourSetCommand


     public handler OnLoad(in pProperties as Array)
       -- your code here
       put pProperties["myProperty"] into mMyVariable
     end handler

     public handler OnSave(out rProperties as Array)
       -- your code here
       put the empty array into rProperties
       put mMyVariable into rProperties["myProperty"]
       return rProperties
     end handler

     public handler OnCreate()
       -- your code here
     end handler

     public handler OnPaint()
       -- your code here
     end handler

   end widget
   """