FF User Tool: Format Selection to Columns

[Eddy Van Esch]

How to install in FF:
- Compile the below source code (or copy the precompiled exe in a folder)
- In FireFly: "Tools / Edit User Tools"
- "New"
- Enter "Column Formatter" as tool name
- Enter the name of the executable ("ColForm_NoGUI.exe" ?)
- No parameters required
- Enter an accelerator key combination
- Hit "Done"

How to use in FF:
- Select a few lines of code in the Code Editor
- Hit the accelerator key combination (or  Menu: "Tools / Column Formatter")
- Selected text is fetched and formatted, columns aligned.

This:

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     DIM a as long 'This is comment
       DIM abc         as string      'Note that the REM statement
DIM         test as double 'is not recognised as start of comment


becomes:

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Dim a    As Long    'This is comment
Dim abc  As String  'Note that the REM statement
Dim test As Double  'is not recognised as start of comment


[Rolf Brandt]

Great - thanks for that one, Eddy.

Rolf