olanti-p / bn_astyle

An extension for Visual Studio 2022 to format C/C++ documents using Artistic Style engine.

BN_Astyle

An extension for Visual Studio 2022 to format C/C++ documents using Artistic Style engine.

Based on (and uses code snippets from): astyle-extension by lukamicoder

More info on Artistic Style at http://astyle.sourceforge.net/

Supported Visual Studio editions:

Visual Studio 2022 Community
Visual Studio 2022 Professional
Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise

Features:

1. Ability to set astyle arguments Tools -> Options -> BN_Astyle
2. Optional automatic format on save Tools -> Options -> BN_Astyle
3. Command to format current C/C++ document Edit -> Format Document (BN_Astyle)

Using with Cataclysm Bright Nights project:

Installing from Releases

1. Download BN_Astyle.zip from Releases page
2. Unpack anywhere
3. Double click .vsix to install. Visual Studio installer should guide you from there

Installing from source

1. Check out the repository
2. Open BN_Astyle.sln
3. Install any workloads Visual Studio prompts you to (.NET framework 4.8 and Extension SDK)
4. Select Release / Any CPU configuation
5. Build Solution
6. If there were no issues, resulting .vsix should be in BN_Astyle\bin\Release. Double click to install

Configuring

1. Go to Tools -> Options -> BN_Astyle
2. Enable automatic Format on save (or don't, depends on how you like it)
3. In BN repository, open msvc-full-features\AStyleExtension-Cataclysm-DDA.cfg with any text editor, copy contents of CppCommandLine entry and paste into Formatting options
4. Close options window by pressing Ok in bottom-right corner