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EvlG
Ketchup Master
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 Posted - Feb 19 2004 : 11:20:13 AM
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| Now that VAX supports many different languages, game developers like me would love it if the tool supported UnrealScript. The syntax is very similar to C++, with the addition of a few UnrealScript keywords and concepts (like state blocks). |
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
2321 Posts |
Posted - Feb 19 2004 : 2:53:21 PM
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yes, absolutely. (and maybe after that we can also add support for PHP, Python, Perl, awk, and a dozen other languages.)  |
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
2321 Posts |
Posted - Feb 23 2004 : 10:42:34 PM
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Duh, just saw that VAX seems to support Perl already. At least there is a settings tab for it. Could we please have PHP now?  |
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selmo
Junior Member
19 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2004 : 10:40:44 PM
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| I would like to be able to define my own context parsing for keywords, comments, etc. For example, I frequently edit .ini files within the VC6 editor and wouldn't mind having some syntactic coloration. If they expose some of the mechanism for the coloring and parsing via config files, we can all create and edit our own language parsers based on our unique needs (and post those files where others might download them?) |
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
2321 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2004 : 08:42:19 AM
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| Unfortunately this would only fulfil parts of the functionality of VA X. I am sure that things like the contents of the HCB, or the definition/context bar are not describable in any freeform editor. If its just for coloring you would do with using Scintilla for any non-VA supported file type, but the rest requires code support from WT. |
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msew
Ketchup Master
94 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 02:04:26 AM
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how can you tell VAX to highlight c/c++ syntax in a file that is not named .cpp / .c / .cxx / .h / .hpp etc
for example:
foo.wildCrazyExtensionOfDoom
inside that file is just c/c++ syntax |
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msew
Ketchup Master
94 Posts |
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msew
Ketchup Master
94 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 02:36:37 AM
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here is how you do it :-)
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2004/04/21/11837.aspx
(text duplicated here as the web sort of sucks for keeping links alive when you really need them)
Get Visual Studio syntax highlighting for alternate file extensions
Question:
How do I configure things so that I can get proper code highlighting when I have a file that is a standard format (XML, or SQL) but has an alternate extension (.DNN, .SqlDataProvider)?
Answer:
Edit the registry (Warning: This is dangerous! Backup the registry first! I take no responsibility for any damage this may cause). Also, you need to change 7.1 if you are not using Visual Studio 2003:
Under this subkey: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\\Languages\\File Extensions], add a new key for whatever file extension you want to add syntax highlighting for (ie, .DNN or .SqlDataProvider). It should show up as a little folder icon.
For the default REG_SZ, change the value to equal the GUID for the file extension you want to copy (ie, for .SqlDataProvider use the same GUID as for .sql). Copy any other DWords, values, etc. (just copy everything from the key of the extension you want to copy).
posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:46 AM
Feedback
# re: Get Visual Studio syntax highlighting for alternate file extensions 4/21/2004 9:36 AM Joel Ross
There's a better way to do this for a few of the file types, such as XML! When you are in the file -> open dialog box in VS.NET, click the arrow on the Open button, and choose open with...
In the new dialog, select the type of editor you want to edit the file with, then click "Set as Default" and the next time you open a file in VS.NET with that same extension, it uses the default highlighting. I used this with .build files for NAnt, which is just XML.
# re: Get Visual Studio syntax highlighting for alternate file extensions 4/21/2004 9:37 AM Darrell
Joel - yes that is easier! Nice tip.
# re: Get Visual Studio syntax highlighting for alternate file extensions 5/12/2004 7:06 AM Gavin
If you also want to get the other nice features (such as auto-formatting when editing .jsp pages in the HTML editor, for example) find the editor that you want under \\7.1\\Editors (which would be the 'HTML Editor' in this case) and add the extension in the \\Extensions key as a DWORD. The value for the DWORD seems to change a bit, but if you just copy what's already there it works fine.
# re: Get Visual Studio syntax highlighting for alternate file extensions 5/12/2004 7:15 AM Darrell
Nice tip Gavin. Thanks!
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msew
Ketchup Master
94 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 04:20:17 AM
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okie after all that,
the syntax highlighting now works
but VAX does not recognize the .wildCrazyExtensionOfDoom
as something it should be "active" in and give nice auto completition and tooltips. :-(
any way to modify VAX to treat .wildCrazyExtensionOfDoom as a file it should be "active" when that file has focus in visual studio? |
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
775 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 06:19:35 AM
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This is already entered into our wishlist.
See the discussion in Topic 2713...
The discussion ranks around SQL, but I entered it as "all possible custom-filetypes", not just SQL...
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