Add a shortcut to automatically generate a setter and getter for a property

[Eerywax]

Describe the project you are working on

I'm making a survivor-like type of game with a bunch of stats (per-weapon, and global to each weapon owned by an Actor) which is intended as my practicing composition pattern, with so-far heavy use of Resources, which contain the many stats for the weapons and actors.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

When there is a large (or even moderate, to be honest) number of stats, it becomes tedious to create a setget function for each. Sometimes, one might want to use a setget simply to be more threadsafe, but the function might not have anything beyond the basic return or set functionality. In these cases,, copy-pasting but changing a single word in the variable gets tedious.

(15:33 in this video is where I got the notion that it's more thread-safe, I am not knowledgeable enough to know if this is true or not, but I did decide to err on the side of caution and make setgets!)

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

It might be convenient if there was a hotkey to auto-generate blank (or bare-bones) setters and getters by hovering over the base variable declaration. From there the functionality would perhaps use the var name and append "set_" and "get_" to the front for the functions declared as the setters and getters, and then generate a basic setter/getter at the bottom of the script, by those names.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

Addressed in the last section mostly, however I'm not sure what hotkey would be best. Maybe Ctrl + J, since J can be a visual mnemonic for a sweeping line that loops at the bottom, adding something to your the bottom of your script.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

The problem can be worked around with a few lines... per variable (arguably though it's not even a workaround, it's just implementing a setget). The issue arises when there are many variables, and the cost is human lifetime and energy.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

"This is about improving the usability of the code editor out of the box."

[Calinou]

Duplicate of #1238.