[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Generate methods, constructors, destructors and events in a standard way

[mircea.alexandru]

I currently like using the shortcuts to generate a needed Method, Constructor/Destructor or Event, mostly because it's added alphabetically (which I like) and because it generates the comment section. But I can also notice the way it does that is not standard when it comes to the parentheses (). Basically: - a Constructor looks like: "CONSTRUCTOR PUBLIC MyConstructor ( ):" -> space after name + 2 spaces inside parentheses. - a Destructor looks like: "DESTRUCTOR PUBLIC MyDestructor ( ):" -> space after name + 1 space inside parentheses. - a Method looke like: "METHOD PROTECTED VOID MyMethod( ):" -> no space after name + 2 spaces inside parentheses. - an Event looks like: "DEFINE PUBLIC EVENT MyEvent SIGNATURE VOID ()." -> space after name + no space inside parentheses. I would very much like only one please, like "MyMethod()" -> no space after name + no space inside parentheses, pretty much like C#, Java etc. 2nd, I would very much like to be able to generate a missing method as a refactoring tool, after selecting a method name inside my implementation. Example: ... THIS-OBJECT:MyMissingMethod(iCharacterValue). ... "MyMissingMethod" does not exist yet, so I would like to be able to select the text and generate the missing method including parameters (in this case an input character).

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