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Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

I currently use a very powerful text editor called Editplus. I've just recently (tonight) written the script needed for it to make zmud scripts (.mud files) have colored syntax. Here is the code for the file required. You must copy this into a regular text document then name it anything.stx

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:40 pm

Thanks Omega... I use EditPlus all the time and this will be a boon to me. A few years ago when I was big into MUDding (recently got back into it) I'd considered doing something similar myself. I did notice that you don't have any code completion there. Any plans to add that, or would that be later on? Smile

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:50 pm

For kicks I checked the EditPlus page to see if there were any other's already defined and there was one by Matthew "Triggum" Walls. He takes a slightly different approach, but also includes shortname versions of most commands.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

I am actually working on autocompletion, it just takes a little while longer because i have to sift though what is and isn't in need of autocompletion. His is a better version of mine cept for one part. Add # to function, @ to variable, and put a PREFIX3=@ just below the case, that will make @blah show up as a variable too. Oh, also, if you want colored numbers, add #number_pattern=cpp

[edit] using his structure, i've revised to make a better layout. Mine is turning out to be quite a color syntaxing. He didn't include quote characters to the delimeters, he should have, and i also put the quotation marks in so that they color now.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

This is a good way for color syntaxing, but I'd eventually like to take this a step further by making a program that'd be a standalone zmud script editor that could tell you whether a trigger would match, and also, if i could do it(or talk zugg into it) make a complete tester to test what the input is and if it hits the trigger, test to see what the output is w/o having to crash zmud with a recursive loop.

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:34 pm

Well I couldn't resist, I tweaked both of them and added a few other items, for what is, hopefully, going to be the definitive syntax file for zMud and EditPlus. Omega let me know if you have any additional input.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

Actually I've edited mine too, and it looks very similar to that. I also added %1..%99 into my variables, cuz quite frankly they are, they take up quite a bit of space but it's worth it to have them color right. Here's my latest. I'm currently working on that autocomplete for you and hope to be done with that sometime today, but there's a lot of research and tweaking that goes into making that sonofa work right.

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:14 pm

I'm wondering if we should post the final product under finished scripts.

Newbie Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Melbourne

Wow, the things you find when you Google your name. ;-)

When you get a definitive version of the file done, could you mail me a copy? I'll send it on to the EditPlus people to replace the version that's there ATM.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

Oh, i've got a definitive copy, i'll post it in the finished scripts section

Novice Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 31

I do not understand. What does this do?

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:02 pm

I'll post OmegaDeus' 1st 2 lines in this whole post:

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Since the actual meat of this topic was transferred over to the Finished scripts forum...I am going to edit out those very lengthy code blocks. I am sick of scrolling through them.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

The finished version can be found here http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=22498

Novice Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 31

Uh, no, Vitae, it doesn't. Doesn't zMUD already colour your syntax?

Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 135

From what I gather, it's for viewing external zscript files with Pretty Print. That is, if you copy any zscript to a file, it has no color. Using EditPlus, Omega has enabled that sw to provide Pretty Print coloring for easier reading of your saved zscript files. So, while very nifty, I presume this is limited to having EditPlus.

Wanderer Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 99

This is not an advertisement.
The product they are referring to can be found here: http://www.editplus.com/
It is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable auto-completion, and other features.
It is not free.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:05 pm

And actually, another interesting fact to keep in mind is that in zMUDXP I am using the various zApp components, and the zApp zMemo component has syntax highlighting. The syntax highlighting in zMemo has a new method that allows an EditPlus *.stx file to be loaded for the syntax. So, in zMUDXP, when you have a script written in VBScript, zMUDXP will load the vbscript.stx file. If your script is written in PerlScript, it will load the perlscript.stx file. When using the default zScript, the syntax is loaded internally, but you can optionally provide a zscript.stx file to override the internal syntax.

So the file that Omega created could have more use for regular zMUDXP users in the future.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:23 pm

Zugg that is sooooooo sweet. Will you have support for their autocompletion file too?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:28 pm

Autocompletion will have to come later. The zApp stuff doesn't have autocompletion, it only has syntax highlighting. So it's possible to add in the future, but it doesn't come "for free" along with zApp features.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:32 pm

I guess I have another question for EditPlus users though:

It seems that you can have several #KEYWORD sections in the stx file. But what controls the actual text style of these keywords? Is there some other settings in EditPlus where you assign the color and text attributes to each keyword section? Or do all of the keyword sections get styled the same? And does it have options to set a style for delimiters, line comments, etc? I don't have EditPlus myself, so I'm just going by there documentation for the stx file.

In zMUDXP (and zApp), each syntax "rule" is assigned to a particular text style name. And then you can set the color, font, etc of each style name just like any other style in an editor. So maybe I need to take the name of the #KEYWORD section and use that for the style name? Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

It's in the settings file, you have to manually create the link to the file in EditPlus and then once you've made the links you set the colors through there. I think it'd be easier if you set everything in the .STX file and just created the link to it. As far as the #KEYWORD sections, you can only have 5 of them, and if you want numbers colored, you are only limited to cpp, or wasting an entire #KEYWORD section for your own colors for numbers. I'd much like it to have more than 5 keyword sections and the likes, but for now that will have to do since editplus has regular expression checking which make is it real easy to do replaces and such. like searching for | and replacing it with \n on all the values of string lists or db vars to put each item on it's own line to change what's broke, then replacing \n with | again to port back into the syntax editor. For me it's a very great way to search through some of my GUIs and replace the one little item that's making the whole thing look messed up, while still having colored syntax.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

Oh BTW, this is the entire help file on the syntax highlighting for you zugg:

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

A little off topic, I use Macromedia Homesite 5 for my script editing and I have a nice little zscript syntax file for it if anyone wants it.

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:48 pm

Omega, yeah, I had found that help file on the net (in Wikipedia of all places). But it doesn't answer my questions. It doesn't mention how EditPlus actually sets up the text style for each keyword, and whether each keyword section has it's own style or not. So I still need some tips on how the stx file is actually associated with text styles.

Nexela, I'd be interested in anything you have for Homesite. If they have an easy interface and some documentation, it probably wouldn't be hard to support it. I've gotten the zApp Memo control syntax highlighting working really well and it has very flexible regular expression patterns for syntax highlighting, so I can probably adopt most anything to it. Converting the EditPlus file only took a couple of hours.