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grandchain
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 04 2023 :  10:28:57 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
ARM fast models use a 4GL heavily based on C++ called Lisa, and the code is in a lot of ways very similar. Sufficiently so, in fact, that for a lot of cases we could probably get decent support by just pretending it is C++.
However, when I try to edit a .lisa file in Visual Studio, I get no Snippets, no circular paste buffer, no highlighting.

Is there any way to persuade Visual Assist to enable at least basic support in LISA files?

feline
Whole Tomato Software

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Posted - Sep 04 2023 :  11:10:19 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This page explains how to tell VA and the IDE to treat custom file extensions as C++:

https://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W328

but obviously be aware that any deviations from C++ will cause odd side effects.

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