I've been programming in Delphi for a little over two years now, and I've only got maybe 5 custom templates, I feel as though I should have more.
If anyone has any particularly useful ones it would be great to have a nice repository of them here on stackoverflow.
I don't care whether you use the Delphi 2009 syntax or Delphi 7, but if the code you'd be generating only works on a particular version, please mention that.
There are a handful of useful ones here, including a few based on CodeRush. These are the live templates, so they work in Delphi 2006 and up.
http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Live_Templates
Very handy output debug string plus formatting
Name:
ods
Description:
Output Debug String with Format
Code:
OutputDebugString(PAnsiChar(format('|',[])));
also, if I want to leave it in the code:
Name:
dods
Description:
Output Debug String with ifdef debug
Code:
{$IFDEF DEBUG}
OutputDebugString(PAnsiChar(format('|',[])));
{$ENDIF}
This one is pretty handy because it always shows up first when I hit ctrl-j (so my shortcut is ctrl-j enter)
Name:
//*
Description:
Comment Line
Code:
//******************************************************************************
I use it to start documentation around methods. It sure beats hitting '*' 78 times.
If you do a lot of work on datasets these are handy.
Name: fbn
Description: DataSet FieldByName
|DataSet|.FieldByName( '|Field|' )|end|
Name: pbn
Description: DataSet ParamByName
|DataSet|.ParamByName( 'P_|Param|' )|end|
I did a couple that saved me lots of time. A few of those took the monotone out of property declarations. Then I did some to create type-safe enumerators, object lists and bucket lists. I probably should do one for collections too, but haven't yet.
These are all available on my blog.
