Creating Macros for a Slide-In Prompt and to Renumber

Environment: Developer Studio v6.0, v5.0

When using the Developer Studio IDE, I have always missed some of the functionality I added to my CodeWright environment using a custom .dll I wrote several years back. The two most useful functions I missed most were called SlideInPrompt and Renumber.

The SlideInPrompt macro inserts a text string into a selected column. If only one column was selected, the selected column is left intact and the text inserted at the beginning of the column. If more than one column is selected, the text under the column is deleted before the text is inserted.

The Renumber macro will sequentially renumber a selected column. It will prompt for a beginning number, delete the selected column, and then sequentially ordered numbers are inserted in its place.

The combination of these two macros are great time savers. Here is an example of how you might use them.

Simply select a blank column (hold down your Alt key while selecting, or press CTRL+SHIFT+F8 to go into column mode), and activate the SlideInPrompt macro (I have it tied to CTRL->). Enter your text, such as:


GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);

You will end up with a column of text like this:


GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);
GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);
GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);
GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);
GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);
GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)->Enable(FALSE);

Now comes the renumber macro. Highlight the columns of 1’s and active the Renumber macro. It will prompt for a starting number; enter “1” and the column will be renumbered sequentially.

I had to calculate the number of columns selected because I couldn’t find a function to return it. Anybody have any ideas on this?

To use this macro, simply highlight it and save it as a .dsm file in the “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioCommonMSDev98Macros” folder. Select Tools, Customize and go to the Add-Ins and Macros tab. Click the Browse button and select the macro.


‘——————————————————————
‘ FILE DESCRIPTION: Two Macros: SlideInPrompt() slides text into
‘ selection; Renumber() renumbers a column of numbers
‘ Eric Sanders, February 12, 2001
‘——————————————————————

Sub SlideInPrompt()
SlideString = InputBox (“Enter Slide-In string:”)
If SlideString <> “” Then
SlideIn(SlideString)
End If
End Sub

Function SlideIn(ByVal SlideString)
nStartLine = ActiveDocument.Selection.TopLine
nEndLine = ActiveDocument.Selection.BottomLine

‘ Calculate how many columns have been selected
‘ No direct function to retreive this?

nChars = len(ActiveDocument.Selection)
nColumns = ((nChars – 2 * (nEndLine – nStartLine + 1)) _
/ (nEndLine – nStartLine + 1))

‘ We cut to force cursor to the top left
ActiveDocument.Selection.Cut

‘ If we only selected one column, then we want the original
‘ text so put it back

if nColumns = 1 then
ActiveDocument.Selection.Paste
end if

‘ Now go through the column adding our string
nStartColumn = ActiveDocument.Selection.CurrentColumn

For i = nStartLine To nEndLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.MoveTo i, nStartColumn
ActiveDocument.Selection = SlideString
Next
End Function

Sub Renumber()
BegNum = InputBox (“Enter beginning number”)
If BegNum <> “” Then
If IsNumeric(BegNum) Then
nBegNum = Int(BegNum)
RenumberColumnSelection(nBegNum)
End If
End If
End Sub

Function RenumberColumnSelection (ByVal nBegNum)
nStartLine = ActiveDocument.Selection.TopLine
nEndLine = ActiveDocument.Selection.BottomLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.Delete
nStartColumn = ActiveDocument.Selection.CurrentColumn

For i = nStartLine To nEndLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.MoveTo i, nStartColumn
ActiveDocument.Selection = nBegNum
nBegNum = nBegNum + 1
Next
End Function

Downloads

Source Code (renumber.dsm) – 5kb

September 13, 2002


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