Code Templates

Castalia's code templates increase your speed and accuracy by helping you to produce common and complex programming structures with just a few keystrokes.

Errors are often introduced into code by malformed control structures. By consistently utilizing code structures that are known to be correct, the chances of introducing these errors is greatly reduced.

Castalia's code templates are fully scriptable, using a Delphi-like scripting language. Templates can do math, manipulate strings, and even ask the user for additional input or use the clipboard. Templates are also context-aware, so templates can be configured to only apply in certain files or certain parts of your code. Castalia code templates even know which class or method they're being triggered in, and can use that information.

Castalia's code templates do not replace Delphi's built-in templates, but are a separate mechanism. Below is a comparison of Delphi's templates to Castalia's:

	Delphi Templates	Castalia Templates
Scripting	No scripting - just text entry	Fully scriptable: use Delphi code in your templates
Code formatting	No code formatting	Each template can be customized to match your programming style
Template Activation	Requires you to press (and remember) a hotkey (Ctrl+J by default)	Automatically activate on ANY key you designate (spacebar by default). You can choose a hotkey if you wish
Clipboard integration	No clipboard Integration	Use the clipboard contents in your templates
Context awareness	No context awareness	Templates know their context. Names of files, methods, and classes are all accessible to the template script.
Context sensitivity	No context sensitivity	Each template can be very flexibly customized to trigger only in certain contexts

Code templates are available in the Delphi, C#, and C++ languages.

Code Templates

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