Is there a way to automatically format a method during the compilation phase or immediately after?

> I followed the advice from this question on stackoverflow 14234003 and
> from there created this simple method to add instance variables and
> the basic accessors in one go.
>
> addVarsAndTheirAccessors: aCollection on: aClass
> aCollection do: [ :each | aClass addInstVarNamed: each;
>   compile: each, '  ^ ', each classified: 'accessing';
> compile: each,': aByteString ',each, ' := aByteString'
> classified:'accessing' ]
>
> Currently I have to click on the created methods and format them in the browser.
>
> Is there an option to format the method during the compile phase or an
> method that can be passed a collection of methods to format
> automatically?
>
>  

> Frank Church wrote:
>> I followed the advice from this question on stackoverflow 14234003 and
>> from there created this simple method to add instance variables and
>> the basic accessors in one go.
>>
>> addVarsAndTheirAccessors: aCollection on: aClass
>>     aCollection do: [ :each | aClass addInstVarNamed: each;
>>            compile: each, '  ^ ', each classified: 'accessing';
>>         compile: each,': aByteString ',each, ' := aByteString'
>> classified:'accessing' ]
>>
>> Currently I have to click on the created methods and format them in
>> the browser.
>>
>> Is there an option to format the method during the compile phase or an
>> method that can be passed a collection of methods to format
>> automatically?
>>
>>  
> I don't know the answer but here is how I might find out....
> Note I am actually only doing this for the first time, so I'll lay it
> out in detail in case I can learn from someone else poking holes in it.
>
> 1. Bring up the context menu in the browser so that it shows the
> <Format> menu item
>
> 2. Use Alt-Shift-Click (on Windows) to bring up halos on the <Format>
> menu item, so that you see it is aToggleMenuItemMorph
>
> 3. Click the green Duplicate action then put the menu item down on the
> background.
> Check that clicking that copied button will format the code in the browser
>
> 4. Bring up halos on that duplicated menu item, so that it shows as
> aMenuMorph (I don't know why it changed from aToggleMenuItemMorph)
>
> 5. Click the grey spanner to Debug > Inspect Morph
>
> 6. Notice that instance variable 'submorphs' is aToggleMenuItemMorph.
> Inspect 'submorphs' and then inspect item 1 of the Array to get an
> inspector on aToggleMenuItemMorph.
>
> 7. This inspector shows the following instance variables...
>         target: anORCmdFormat
>         selector: #perform:orSendTo:
> In the pane at the bottom of the inspector, execute... self selector:
> #xxx:yyy:
> and observe the instance variable change
>
> 8. Click the duplicated menuitem still sitting on the background.
> A debugger opens with a MNU #xxx:yyy:
> Observe  that the following message is selected...           perform:
> selector withArguments: arguments
> since in [12.] you will Step Into this point.
>
> 9. Select the second line from the top of the call stack, which is
> #invokeWithEvent:
> Observe the instance variable 'selector' shows #xxx:yyy:
>
> 10. In the bottom pane second from the left, execute... self selector:
> #perform:orSendTo:
> and observe the instance variable change
>
> 12. Click <Restart> from the debugger
> Step Over until you can Step Into the message you observed in [8.]
> After twice stepping-into, you should be in ORCmdFormat>>execute
> which looks like it has a few things that will be useful to you.
>
> I'll leave it there for you to continue tracing.
>
> cheers -ben
>