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alefragnani / vscode-separators

Separators Extension for Visual Studio Code
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[FEATURE] - VBA Language Support | ".bas" and ".frm" file extensions #83

Closed lundeen-bryan closed 1 year ago

lundeen-bryan commented 1 year ago

I would greatly appreciate seeing VBA support for this function as I do a lot of VBA in Excel. This is already such a great Extension so I thank you much for it just as-is.

VBA uses these keyword symbols:

Not sure, but you might have to add the keywords "Public" and "Private" too as we typically write "Public Function GetValue()" as an example.

File extensions are typically ".bas" but I suppose it could also be ".vbs" in some cases and also please add ".frm" for UserForms that have code.

alefragnani commented 1 year ago

Hi @lundeen-bryan ,

Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad to know the extension is being helpful.

About VBA support, what are you missing/not working? I mean, this extension relies on some language extension that provides the Symbols (the Outline), and uses this information to draw the lines. So, if you have some extension that provides Symbols for VBA, this extension should work.

The only thing, up until now, this extension needs special handling is while dealing with callback functions. This is necessary because each language/extension has its own way to describe a callback.

It's been a long time I don't touch VBA source, so I'm not sure which VBA extension you could have installed.

Hope this helps

lundeen-bryan commented 1 year ago

Strangely enough it just started working right now. It wasn't working yesterday to show the separators, but I see them now. Maybe it was there all along and just wasn't activated in my machine. If you did make a change today, then it seems to be working great. Either way, thank you and I really do appreciate the effort you are doing with this extension have a good weekend!

alefragnani commented 1 year ago

That's great to hear it is working!

I didn't do anything. No new update. Maybe just something related to the VB extension not providing the symbols to some projects. The C# extension presents this behavior, and for some projects it takes too long to analyze and return the symbols.

Anyway, good to know it is working now. Enjoy 😁