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ScaryBinary
01-11-2008, 12:16 AM
Has anyone considered creating one? I know practically nothing about Eclipse plugins, but from what I've seen of Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) it seems like it would be perfect for creating a syntax highlighting ZScript editor.
....and if the ZC developers enabled us to compile scripts without opening ZQuest (or can we already do that? I haven't figured it out yet...)...well, then we could compile directly from a friendlier editor...
Just curious.
(I guess if I learned ZASM I wouldn't have to compile at all! :D)
pkmnfrk
01-11-2008, 01:01 AM
Has anyone considered creating one? I know practically nothing about Eclipse plugins, but from what I've seen of Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) it seems like it would be perfect for creating a syntax highlighting ZScript editor.
Although I know nothing about Eclipse, you could use the C syntax with minor modification (mostly need to add a bunch of keywords).
....and if the ZC developers enabled us to compile scripts without opening ZQuest (or can we already do that? I haven't figured it out yet...)...well, then we could compile directly from a friendlier editor...
Just curious.
Nope.
(I guess if I learned ZASM I wouldn't have to compile at all! :D)
Of course you would. ZASM is human readable text, which is not what the computer likes to read.
DarkDragon
01-11-2008, 05:46 AM
The ZScript compiler almost stands alone (after all it just compiles ZScript to ZASM) so a stand-alone compiler is definitely feasible post-2.50 if someone has a sufficiently strong interest in it. Incidentally if anybody wants to make their own independent ZScript compiler (or wants to take a stab at ZJava or something) I'll be happy to give you the bison grammar files to get you started.
ZQuest will get a completely new, modern, non-suck GUI... eventually, if those dang bugs stop crawling out of the woodwork...
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