O, almighty FD team, please bring the special tags functionality back to FD3!

Two of the snippets I've used most often - trace (which used @CLIPBOARD), and singleton (which used @CLASSNAME), are now unusable, cause the tags are not parsed. It's always hard to take when a new version takes away features that were there before...

And while I'm at it, is it possible to simplify creation of snippets? Like I always have to look up what the tag for entrypoint looks like. Why do we have two tags, $(EntryPoint) and $(CSLB)? What does the second one stand for?

Other than that, I heart you and if you don't end up in Heaven, I don't know who might. Best regards.

The variable names have all be renamed.

Snippets & templates variables:
$(EntryPoint) -- cursor position
$(CSLB) ("Coding Style Line Break") -- when generating code, tells where to insert a linebreak if the "Coding Style Type" option (program setting) is set to "Brace After Line".

General variables:
$(SelText) -- selected text
$(CurWord) -- word at cursor position
$(Clipboard) -- clipboard content
$(Timestamp) -- system time

$(CurFile) -- current file
$(CurFilename) -- current file's name
$(CurDir) -- current file's directory

$(OpenFile) -- show Open.. file dialog
$(SaveFile) -- show Save As... file dialog
$(OpenDir) -- show dialog to select a directory

$(DesktopDir) -- user desktop directory
$(SystemDir) -- Windows system directory
$(ProgramsDir) -- Program Files directory
$(PersonalDir) -- user directory
$(WorkingDir) -- current working directory
$(AppDir) -- FlashDevelop program directory
$(BaseDir) -- FlashDevelop files
$(UserAppDir) -- FlashDevelop user directory

Project related:
$(ToolsDir) -- user Tools directory
$(OutputDir) -- output file direcory
$(OutputName) -- output file name
$(ProjectName) -- project name
$(ProjectDir) -- project directory
$(ProjectPath) -- project file path

Very handy to have this reference, thanks. I don't suppose it would be possible to add a $(CurMethod) or something similar?

Is that enough?

$(TypPkg) -- File package
$(TypName) -- Current type name
$(TypPkgName) -- Current type qualified name (package+type name)
$(TypKind) -- Type kind (interface, class)

$(MbrName) -- Current member (declaration at line, ie. current method)
$(MbrKind) -- Member kind (const, var, function)
$(MbrTypPkg) -- Member's type package
$(MbrTypName) -- Members's type name
$(MbrTypePkgName) -- Members's type qualified name (package+type name)
$(MbrTypKind) -- Members's type kind (interface, class)

$(ItmTypName) -- Current item name (object resolved at cursor position)
$(ItmFile) -- File where the item is declared
$(ItmKind) -- Item kind (const, var, function)
$(ItmTypPkg) -- Item's type package
$(ItmTypName) -- Item's type name
$(ItmTypePkgName) -- Item's type qualified name (package+type name)
$(ItmTypKind) -- Item's type kind (interface, class)

Oh goodness yes, many thanks! =D

Sweet mother of double jeopardy backstroking in butterscotch!

More than enough, more than satisfied! Thank you!

Woot i was looking for a template variables list before and i never found it.

The list can be found anywhere in the documentation ? If not it should be a good idea to add it.

We are going to start a documentation project soon to produce some
real documentation for FD. This will be found there then.

I don't want to be nasty, but is it somehow possible to
reference a snippet in a snippet? I imagine cool things you could do with that.

Cheers

This is actually a good idea. I'll check it.

i just wondered if you could include something like $(AutoComplete) in the snippets & templates variables. should work like $(EntryPoint) but automatically triggers autocompletion at cursorposition.

greetz
back2dos

Snippets are trimed. There is a solution to write some blank lines at the end ?
The code below doesn't works.

I am sure there must be a way of doing this but I'm struggling to work it out and hope someone can help!

What I like to do is create a snippet that lets me replicate the behaviour of the 'trace variable' function in SEPY.
So given a line of code like this:

and assuming that I have either highlighted '_somePropertyName' or that my cursor is somewhere in it, I want to create a new line underneath that line and then insert the following snippet:

But I just can't work out how to add the new line and put the snippet in it! Can anyone help?

Potentially silly question, but - what about adding code hinting for snippet files? Such that when editing a snippet within FD you get hints for "$("?