Tips on organizing your code

[picea892]

Hi

Until recently I've only made short scripts so my bad habits and poor code layout has not affected me. Now for the first time I am pushing 1000 lines in one of my scripts and I'm really starting to feel the pain of being a self taught coder. It is some times rather difficult to find a spot in the code and I'm certain if I set this script aside for a couple months it will be very difficult to go back to it, simply because of how it has been written. So I want to clean it up but am not sure how to.

Could people share with me some tips and tricks on how to keep code organized. It'd be greatly appreciated.

[monoceres]

Have you run tidy (Ctrl+t from SciTe4AutoIt)?

Other tips is to use comment regions (#CS and #CE) and regions (#Region, #EndRegion).

Also when you're writing the code try to modularize the code as much as possible, try to have standalone functions that don't rely on specific behaviors of other functions.

[picea892]

#regions will help a lot! Thank you. I'm wondering if there is a default setting in SciTe to have all regions compressed on startup. It defaults to all regions open.

[Jos]

add this to your SciTEUser.properties:

fold.on.open=1