Formatting Path Data Lines

10-22-2008 11:14 AM |

Does anyone know of a tool or way in VS2008 or Blend 2 to reformat very long path data lines so they are spread over multiple lines instead of one big long line?

(Please mark as Answered if this helps!)

Thanks,
Wade

Re: Formatting Path Data Lines

10-23-2008 1:32 AM |

Hi 

For this kind of issue you may want to concatenate strings, but if you want more efficient code you can use StringBuilder.

	// C# Code from MSDN
        // Initialize the StringBuilder with "ABC".
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("ABC", 50);

        // Append three characters (D, E, and F) to the end of the StringBuilder.
        sb.Append(new char[] { 'D', 'E', 'F' });

        // Append a format string to the end of the StringBuilder.
        sb.AppendFormat("GHI{0}{1}", 'J', 'k');

        // Display the number of characters in the StringBuilder and its string.
        Console.WriteLine("{0} chars: {1}", sb.Length, sb.ToString());

 Regards

Re: Re: Formatting Path Data Lines

10-23-2008 10:42 AM |

I don't think you understand what I am looking for.  In XAML when you have a <Path> declared and you have the <Data> line is a long listing of numerical values.  If there are several points in the path it creates a very long list of numbers.  In VS when I open a usercontrol with one of these with long lines then I get a message saying it will slow down the IDE if you continue opening. 

So, what I would like to do is to have a utility to split the long number strings with line breaks and to make sure it breaks on a comma and not in the middle of a decimal number.

(Please mark as Answered if this helps!)

Thanks,
Wade