Making SC write code on its own through GUI/Hotkeys

Questions
1

Recently, i’ve been wondering how one would create something like this

It doesn’t have to be as complicated as the example, i just want to do something like have an extension that creates a synthdef when i press a certain hotkey or something in that nature.

2

Fyi, what your looking for is called ‘snippets’. Scide doesn’t have them. However, it is possible to make changes to the current document with the Document class.

Here’s a quark that might work???

If you want a more feature complete ide you can use many others with supercollider, although I only know that neovim has decent support. It might take many years to learn vim though…

Also, did you try that guys code? He has a GitHub link in the video comment?

3

I will definitely check this out!coding, i wasn’t really sure how to make it work. That quark and the document class seem to be pretty much exactly what i am looking for, though. Thank you for your help!

5

If you want to get deep into the weeds, with SCNvim + NeoVim + LuaSnip you can do this kind of thing like crazy… Quite a project to configure though, not for the faint at heart!

6

Just using Document would look something like this:

Document.globalKeyDownAction_
{
	|...args| // document character modifier unicode keycode
	
	var doc, char, mod, uni, key; #doc, char, mod, uni, key = args
	;
	thisFunction.def.varNames.collect{ |x n| x -> args[n] }.printAll
	;
	case
	{
		mod.isShift
	}{
		//
	}{
		mod.isCtrl
	}{
		//
	}{
		mod.isAlt
	}{
		doc.string_
		(
			doc.string ++
			(
				Char.nl ++ // prepend with newline 
				(
					char.switch
					{
						$z
					}{
						"/\\/"
					}{
						$x
					}{
						"\\/\\"
					}
					
					{
						"" // default
					}	
				)
			)
		)
	}
	
	{
		// default action
	}
}