[new feature] Generate 'Create Type' Sub

[Erel]

 

[LucaMs]

You're having fun (and doing useful things) with the editor, so...

if anyone has other ideas in this regard, write them here now

 

[Erel]

now

'Now' is a bit too late for the next update but making suggestions is always good...

 

[AnandGupta]

Now that the B4A ide is becoming so powerful, the text editor I use is becoming irrelevant.
But I have this habit of key shortcuts from it.

So my idea/suggestion: "Key mapping" feature so that I may map bookmarking to different keys, as is my habit.

Regards,

Anand

 

[stevel05]

If the Type contains a map or List, will they be initialized? It can't know about our own Classes, will it refuse to create the sub if the type contains classes not in the core or other Types, or will it initialize then and leave us to fill in default data required?

 

[Erel]

Nothing needs to be initialized as all the fields are set. It also doesn't need to know too much about the fields types:

Type TTT (X As Map, Ser As B4RSerializator)

Public Sub CreateTTT (X As Map, Ser As B4RSerializator) As TTT
   Dim t1 As TTT
   t1.Initialize
   t1.X = X
   t1.Ser = Ser
   Return t1
End Sub

You can of course modify this sub as you need. For example if you want to remove some parameters and set them with default values.

 

[stevel05]

Ah yes of course, silly me.

 

[Mashiane]

The only wish I could could think of on the top of my head after seeing this is a TypeToMap and MapToType kinda thing as I like saving JSON strings to a db. TypeToMap will convert the type to a map and MapToType will convert the map back to a type. #wishfulThinking.

 

[Erel]

You can use B4XSerializator to serialize complex custom types to bytes and vice versa.

 

[ilan]

This is very useful. I use a lot type objects in my apps. Great feature!