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Suggestion |Components |Mini Source code friendly editor

For those of use restricted from accessing the environment and using vscode to author components, a mini code editor would be productively useful as well as investigating/understanding what is going on under the covers when things go awry either with our coding or with the environment.

What I suggest is that when editing a custom component an option for "code editor" is displayed which renders the underlying json/yaml/etc to friendly pseudo code that can be edited using a simple text editor (without intellisense being supported initially) and when saved is deconstructed, and internal file(s) updated --> display updated. This would also reduce the app studio workload tracking everything as code changes are made realtime.

eg. first line defines the custom property, its type, direction (I/O), parameters, and data type, with following lines defining other properties, default values, and the formula.

as an explicit eg. CustomFunc with parameters p1, p2, and optional parameters p3 and p4

//Compiler error messages are generated when this file was generated

//First line must start with #Output Function,#Input Function, #Output Data, #Input Data, #Event, or #Action

#Output Function CustomFunc(p1 as Record, p2 as Number ,Optional p3 as Text, Optional p4 as Num) as Number

//Definition: Parameter p4 unrecognised type

DisplayName: ....

Description: ...

RaiseOnReset:false

p1:Defaults(myTable)

//p1 as Record: myTable is not recognised

p2:{a:1}

//p2: Defined type and default value type mismatch