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Advanced Autocomplete

PuzzleScript has fancy autocomplete for objects and rules.

For instance, if you create an objected called Enemy_up, if as your next object you start typing C you will see in your autocomplete a suggestion to generate the rest (_down, _left, _right), which will also rotate the sprites with them.

There's been autocomplete added for many suffix variants:

This isn't the end of it, though! Having defined an object with a suffix, you will also be able to autocomplete it in other parts of the code, such as auto-generating property-types in the legend:

Or appending to existing types:

This is not the end, though! If you type one rule that starts with a direction, if you add a new rule to the next line that starts with a direction, you will be prompted with a transformed version of that rule.

How do we decide how to transform the rule? It depends on the two directions. If they are 90 degrees apart, it's a rotation, otherwise we mirror the rule. If we have an up rule, a following down rule will be autocompleted as a vertical mirror:

up [ > Player | up Crate_up ] -> [ > Player | right Crate_right ] 
down [ > Player | down Crate_down ] -> [ > Player | right Crate_right ]

But if we autocomplete in series up, right, down, the down rule will be effectively a 180 degree rotation of the original up rule:

up [ > Player | up Crate_up ] -> [ > Player | right Crate_right ] 
right [ > Player | right Crate_right ] -> [ > Player | down Crate_down ]
down [ > Player | down Crate_down ] -> [ > Player | left Crate_left ]

This will do its best to transform any objects with suffixes mentioned in the above table, along with any movement directions mentioned.