Days ago, I asked Frederik De Bleser a question about the indentation size in the NodeBox code editor. I want to change it from 4 to 8.
Frederik kindly answered me. I think I should share the solution here.
Thank you, Frederik.
THE QUESTION: ##############################
Hi Frederik. Hi Tom.
I am an Interactive Designer and Generative Artist from China. I live in Beijing, and run a small interactive design company, named Farefore.
Thank you all for creating and running the wonderful NodeBox. I love it very much and use it daily creating generative artworks. I also use Flash and Processing. Although Processing seems more popular, I feel NodeBox is more elegant and better organized, including documents.
I write this letter looking for help about using NodeBox code editor. The question is, how can I change the indent or tab space from 4 characters to 8 characters? Larger indent space is a big help for me in coding with NodeBox.
Customize Indentation size in NodeBox code editor
Posted by Dillone on Feb 07, 2009Days ago, I asked Frederik De Bleser a question about the indentation size in the NodeBox code editor. I want to change it from 4 to 8.
Frederik kindly answered me. I think I should share the solution here.
Thank you, Frederik.
THE QUESTION: ##############################
Hi Frederik. Hi Tom.
I am an Interactive Designer and Generative Artist from China. I live in Beijing, and run a small interactive design company, named Farefore.
Thank you all for creating and running the wonderful NodeBox. I love it very much and use it daily creating generative artworks. I also use Flash and Processing. Although Processing seems more popular, I feel NodeBox is more elegant and better organized, including documents.
I write this letter looking for help about using NodeBox code editor. The question is, how can I change the indent or tab space from 4 characters to 8 characters? Larger indent space is a big help for me in coding with NodeBox.
By the way, You can look at a part of my portfolio on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/dillone/
Hailei Wang 王海磊
THE SOLUTION from Fredrik: ##############################
Hi,
Nice work!
With regards to your question, there is currently no option to change
the indentation.
Because the software is open-source, you can add the option yourself,
if you really want to.
The line you want to change is in PyDETextView.py
(http://dev.nodebox.net/browser/nodebox/trunk/src/nodebox/gui/mac/PyDETextView.py)
at line 59, where you can change the indentSize from 4 to 8.
Instructions on building your custom NodeBox are here:
http://dev.nodebox.net/wiki/Build
Kind regards,
Frederik