Re: Unicode setting question

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 30 May 2008 18:31:24 +0200
Message-ID:
<OnUudLnwIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:%23AKWmhkwIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

I wrote a macro for VS2008 (I hope it works for older IDEs, too) to make
things a little better.

[...]

This new version allows decoration using _T() or TEXT().
(A little refactoring of the previous version...)

<code>

'****************************************************************************
' Macro for Visual Studio 2008, to decorate C/C++ literal strings using _T()
' to make them "Unicode-aware".
'
' By Giovanni Dicanio
' 2008, May 30th
'
'
' Usage
' -----
'
' Position the cursor on the left or on the right of the closing " of
' the string to decorate, and then run this macro.
'
' Valid cursor positions [<cursor> = cursor position in the editor]:
'
' "ciao"<cursor>
'
' "ciao<cursor>"
'
'
' Supports UNDO.
'
' There are two macros available: UnicodeTDecorator.DecorateT and
' UnicodeTDecorator.DecorateText.
' DecorateT decorates using _T().
' DecorateText decorates using TEXT().
'
'****************************************************************************

Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module UnicodeTDecorator

    '========================================================================
    ' Macro to decorate an undecorated string using _T().
    '========================================================================
    Public Sub DecorateT()
        UnicodeDecorate("_T(")
    End Sub

    '========================================================================
    ' Macro to decorate an undecorated string using TEXT().
    '========================================================================
    Public Sub DecorateText()
        UnicodeDecorate("TEXT(")
    End Sub

    '========================================================================
    ' This is the "core" routine to performan decoration job.
    ' The string prefix to be used on the left (opening) side is passed
    ' as input parameter
    '========================================================================
    Private Sub UnicodeDecorate(ByVal openDecoration As String)

        ' The quote " character
        Const QuoteChar As Char = Chr(34)

        ' Access current cursor position (EditPoint)
        Dim ts As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection
        Dim ep As EditPoint = ts.ActivePoint.CreateEditPoint

        ' This will point to the closing "
        Dim epEnd As EditPoint = ep.CreateEditPoint

        ' Error Message-box Title
        Dim errorTitle As String = _
            "[Unicode String Decorator] *** ERROR ***"

        Try

            ' This macro can work in both cases of cursor
            ' on the left or on the right of closing quote:
            '
            ' "ciao"<cursor>
            ' "ciao<cursor>"
            '

            ' Check that the cursor is on the right of closing "
            If (epEnd.GetText(-1) <> QuoteChar) Then

                ' Check that the cursor is on the left of closing "
                If (epEnd.GetText(1) <> QuoteChar) Then

                    ' Bad position
                    MsgBox( _
                        "Cursor is in bad position." & vbCrLf & _
                        "The cursor must be on the left or on" & vbCrLf & _
                        "the right of the ending string quote.", _
                        MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly + MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, _
                        errorTitle)
                    Exit Sub
                End If
            Else
                ' The cursor is on the right of closing " .
                '
                ' Move a position back, we want it on the
                ' left of " to start algorithm
                epEnd.CharLeft()
            End If

            ' *** Debug
            ' Write(" Character at curr pos = " & epEnd.GetText(1))

            ' Move leftwards until we find matching " (the opening ")
            Dim openQuoteFound As Boolean = False
            Dim epStart As EditPoint = epEnd.CreateEditPoint
            While (Not epStart.AtStartOfLine)
                ' Move one position on the left
                epStart.CharLeft()

                ' If we found " , it is the opening " ,
                ' so we can stop looping
                If (epStart.GetText(1) = QuoteChar) Then
                    openQuoteFound = True
                    Exit While
                End If
            End While

            ' Check that we exited from the loop because we found
            ' the opening ", and not for begin-of-line condition
            If openQuoteFound = False Then
                ' No matching opening " found
                MsgBox( _
                    "No opening string quote found.", _
                    MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly + MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, _
                    errorTitle)

                Exit Sub
            End If

            ' We have just found where the string begins, and where it ends.

            ' *** Debug
            ' Write("Opening quote at : " & epStart.LineCharOffset)
            ' Write("Closing quote at : " & epEnd.LineCharOffset)

            ' Support for Undo
            Dim undoWasOpen As Boolean = False
            If DTE.UndoContext.IsOpen = True Then
                undoWasOpen = True
            Else

                ' Extract the the string we are decorating
                epStart.CharRight()
                Dim stringToDecorate As String = epStart.GetText(epEnd)
                epStart.CharLeft()

                Dim undoContextName As String
                undoContextName = "Unicode String Decoration : " & _
                                    QuoteChar & stringToDecorate & _
                                    QuoteChar & _
                                     " (line: " & epStart.Line & ")"

                ' *** Debug
                ' Write(undoContextName)

                DTE.UndoContext.Open(undoContextName, False)
            End If

            '
            ' *** Insert Unicode _T() or TEXT() decoration ***
            '

            ' Decorate string start
            epStart.Insert(openDecoration)

            ' Decorate string end
            epEnd.CharRight()
            epEnd.Insert(")")

            ' Move after the closing )
            ts.MoveToPoint(epEnd)

            ' Close the undo context only if it has been opened by us here
            If undoWasOpen = False Then
                ' Close the undo object to commit changes
                DTE.UndoContext.Close()
            End If

            ' *** ALL RIGHT *** !

        Catch ex As Exception

            ' Display any exception error message ...
            MsgBox( _
                ex.Message, _
                MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly + MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, _
                errorTitle)
        End Try

    End Sub

    '========================================================================
    ' Helpers for Output/Log
    ' May be useful during debugging and development.
    '========================================================================

    '------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ' Name: Write
    ' Desc: Write a "log" line
    '------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Private Sub Write(ByVal s As String)
        Dim out As OutputWindowPane = GetOutputWindowPane("MACRO OUTPUT", _
                                                          True)
        out.OutputString(s)
        out.OutputString(vbCrLf)
    End Sub

    Private Function GetOutputWindowPane(ByVal Name As String, _
                                 Optional ByVal show As Boolean = True) _
                As OutputWindowPane
        Dim win As Window = DTE.Windows.Item( _
                                        EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindOutput)
        If show Then win.Visible = True
        Dim ow As OutputWindow = win.Object
        Dim owpane As OutputWindowPane
        Try
            owpane = ow.OutputWindowPanes.Item(Name)
        Catch e As System.Exception
            owpane = ow.OutputWindowPanes.Add(Name)
        End Try
        owpane.Activate()
        Return owpane
    End Function
End Module

</code>

Giovanni

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