Has anyone considered creating one? I know practically nothing about Eclipse plugins, but from what I've seen of Eclipse 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! 😃)
ScaryBinary wrote:Has anyone considered creating one? I know practically nothing about Eclipse plugins, but from what I've seen of Eclipse 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).
ScaryBinary wrote:....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.
ScaryBinary wrote:(I guess if I learned ZASM I wouldn't have to compile at all! 😃)
Of course you would. ZASM is human readable text, which is not what the computer likes to read.
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...