28 April 2021, 16:52 | #1 |
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HTML Editor for Amiga?
Was wondering if anyone can recommend an HTML editor for the Amiga (OS3)?
I'm not looking for anything fancy just a text editor that can colour code HTML tags to make things easier to follow? I found a program called HTMLEdit on Aminet which says it does... but as soon as you start editing a page the colour coding goes out the window unless you quit and re-load. It's not scanning for tags in real-time I guess. Thanks. |
28 April 2021, 17:57 | #2 |
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Have you tried Annotate?
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28 April 2021, 18:53 | #3 |
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No not tried that one before. Have just downloaded and installed it, though I can't see any way to get it to recognise HTML tags.
I can see a couple of add-ons for it on Aminet but they seem to be just for programming languages and not HTML? |
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How about GoldEd? It does syntax high-lighting. Not sure also for HTML.
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Any idea where I can get hold of that these days? Doesn't seem to be on Aminet? |
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Thanks but already tried both of the programs mentioned in that thread (HTMLEdit and MetalWeb) and they don't function the way I'd hoped. |
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OK thanks guys - I have found my perfect HTML editor. The suggestion of GoldED lead me to finding a newer version of it packaged as 'CUBIC IDE' which amongst many other things offers full HTML syntax highlighting and code validation. It's a commercial product but there's a free demo and it's fantastic, exactly what I wanted. Thanks again!
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28 April 2021, 21:30 | #9 |
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I like Cubic IDE enough that I bought a copy. It's a really good editor.
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Some of the requester boxes it displays have no 'close' or 'ok' buttons and menu items overlap - does this even in WinUAE which is how I just grabbed this screenshot of the issue... |
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Yeah, Cubic IDE is great! I had bought it long ago from some discount sale, but never did actually install it and kept using CEd, but then finally installed it few years ago when I started to code with Hollywood.
Now I just regret that why the heck I didn't start using it earlier... it has so many handy features (syntax highlighting, automatic casing, online help, quick access to documentation, automatic indentation, bracket matching, auto completion of keywords, compile and run options, etc) for many scripting and programming languages like, for example, AmigaDOS, AmigaGuide, Autodoc, ARexx, Assembler, C/C++, Hollywood, HTML, Installation scripts, etc. |
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29 April 2021, 14:08 | #14 |
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Never mind - I installed again in WinUAE (infinitely faster) and chose the grey/black option and sadly it made no difference apart from the colours.
Need to find where the settings to change fonts/sizes are buried I guess... but there's nothing on the configuration screen which seems like the logical place for such stuff... |
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I found what affects to this... it seems to calculate some window layout sizes according to the system's Screen Text font. I guess this must be a bug... which I didn't notice myself earlier, because I was using big enough font there.
So open your system's Font preferences and change the Screen Text font there. A bit annoying, because this affects everywhere then :/ Here's how it looked on my MorphOS setup with two different font sizes. |
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I had Topaz size 8 set - had to bump it up to 11 and now everything displays correctly. Why that isn't an option in the software I don't know but anyway thanks very much! |
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Yeah, seems to be a bit of an oversight, or maybe a hangover from when it simply used the same font the screen used. Anyway, If you open the Display options for the Filetype properties, in the Colour section there's a file requester gadget that can load colour schemes. They also include things like font and appearance settings. It's a bit awkward to find (I've just spent 5 minutes trawling the many different menus and windows to find that), but there it is
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What a stupid place to put font settings... never would have thought of looking in Filetypes...
Found an alternate way to fix it there too... clicked on 'Pool' and was able to have it open on its own screen which meant it used its own font settings and looked even better. Think the guy who created it was German so maybe stuff got lost in translation but hey ho! Thanks again |
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