BB2 User Defined Language for Notepad++

[Amiga1992]

I understand the usefulness of having a sort of pre-compiled file, but source code should remain text 100% of the time.
I'm not saying "don't have this tokenized file", I am saying "have source, tokenized file and binary"

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by bippym

I've been learning python recently so as a project I might have a go at making something to convert the bb2 file to a text file. Obviously the success will depend on the numbering of your Amigalibs and deflibs being correct

Yes, that would be awesome. The library numbers thing is trickly alright, but perhaps you could use the library definitions from a copy of the installed Blitz setup that the user has.

[BippyM]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Yes, that would be awesome. The library numbers thing is trickly alright, but perhaps you could use the library definitions from a copy of the installed Blitz setup that the user has.

The user will need to supply their own libs. Then the script can take it from that

[Daedalus]

Yep, that's the way to do it

[MickGyver]

Originally Posted by Akira

BTW step 5 on your how to says: "Go to %AppData%\Notepad++". The actual path, at least in my system (Win 7 Pro 64bit) is "%AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++". I am using a 32-bit version of n++ (is there a 64 bit version now?)

%AppData% should point to the correct application data folder used on the system. The actual path is the same for me as for you (I also have Win7 x64). I probably also have the 32bit version of Notepad++. There is a 64bit version but with very limited plugin support.

Originally Posted by bippym

I've been learning python recently so as a project I might have a go at making something to convert the bb2 file to a text file. Obviously the success will depend on the numbering of your Amigalibs and deflibs being correct

That would be way radical!

[AlfaRomeo]

Any updates from the version v0.6 of user defined language for B2 in Notepad++ ??

[MickGyver]

Originally Posted by AlfaRomeo

Any updates from the version v0.6 of user defined language for B2 in Notepad++ ??

I haven't changed anything since v0.6, let me know if you have any problems or if keywords are missing etc.

[AlfaRomeo]

Ok, I will alert you if I note something that could be improved.
Anyway, it´s already a great job Thanks for your effort witchmaster

[MickGyver]

I wrote new instructions on how to set all this up as a pretty pdf file. I also re-added support for regions. This system is working well for me so I will now call this version 1.0.

Check out the instructions and get the files below.

Instructions

http://gamephase.net/files/linked/BB...HowTo-v1.0.pdf

User defined language
http://www.gamephase.net/files/linked/BB2-NPP-v1.0.zip

Automation tools
http://www.gamephase.net/files/linke...-tools-v10.zip

Let me know if you have any problems or find errors in the instructions and so forth!

[E-Penguin]

I shall definitely be giving this a go over the weekend

[MickGyver]

The foldable regions were not actually working as they should, damn! I found a solution though. That solution also makes other stuff easier and safer, so use these updated instructions instead if you decide to try this out! (I also updated the link to the instructions in the first and previous posts).

http://gamephase.net/files/linked/BB...HowTo-v1.1.pdf

[BippyM]

I have now got this installed, but find the background in the styler annoying (set as white). Can it be set to take the background of the current theme?

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by BippyM

I have now got this installed, but find the background in the styler annoying (set as white). Can it be set to take the background of the current theme?

You need to go to settings and make notepad++ override the background color for all themes.

Settings -> Style Configuration -> GLobal Override.

There you can set a common background and foreground color that will override those of any other theme or style.

I also dislike white backgrounds

[BippyM]

Originally Posted by Akira

You need to go to settings and make notepad++ override the background color for all themes.

Settings -> Style Configuration -> GLobal Override.

There you can set a common background and foreground color that will override those of any other theme or style.

I also dislike white backgrounds

Thanks Akira, I saw that, but some things I want to have a different background colour..

I'll set my own up when I add more commands. There seems to be a lot missing (mainly user added libraries)

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[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by BippyM

Thanks Akira, I saw that, but some things I want to have a different background colour..

I'll set my own up when I add more commands. There seems to be a lot missing (mainly user added libraries)

You can change the background for just the BB2 styling, too.

Language->Define Your Language-> Select the BB2 language-> Folder & Defuault -> click "Styler" then choose BG/FG color.
You can't set it to the current theme, but you can choose something else of your preference.

[MickGyver]

Originally Posted by BippyM

I have now got this installed, but find the background in the styler annoying (set as white). Can it be set to take the background of the current theme?

You can also set a background colour to follow the default (making it transparent) by right clicking it according to this solution: https://superuser.com/a/939099

[MickGyver]

Originally Posted by BippyM

I'll set my own up when I add more commands. There seems to be a lot missing (mainly user added libraries)

If you do add the missing commands, please upload your version here!

[BippyM]

Okay so I have made this thread sticky as I believe there are a lot of possibilities and options here..

I think we should consider splitting different functions into different colours (anything branch related in one for example). Might be worth splitting blitz core commands up from added commands/user libraries.

What are the possibilities with Notepad++ ??

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by BippyM

I think we should consider splitting different functions into different colours (anything branch related in one for example). Might be worth splitting blitz core commands up from added commands/user libraries.

Yes, excellent idea. You could start with the AB3 colour scheme, which works very well IMHO. For example:

Comments - pale green italic
Commands using the native chipset - red bold
Constants - purple
Literal strings - grey
Standard commands - blue bold
Procedures - green
Newtypes - dark blue
Everything else - black

[MickGyver]

Originally Posted by BippyM

Okay so I have made this thread sticky as I believe there are a lot of possibilities and options here..

I think we should consider splitting different functions into different colours (anything branch related in one for example). Might be worth splitting blitz core commands up from added commands/user libraries.

What are the possibilities with Notepad++ ??

Cool! There are 8 different groups you can use when defining user defined language in N++. The current groups could be rearranged (look at the image).