external scripts workflow, was: something else about external scripts.

Yes, someone wrote a custom lingo editor a while ago. Don't
remember who or 
the link.

Elia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucas Meijer" <lucasmach8.nl>
To: "Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game
Production" 
<dirgames-lnuttybar.drama.uga.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: [dirGames-L] external scripts workflow,was:
something else about 
external scripts.


> Hey.
>
> I can't seem to let go of the idea of having all
scripts be external, 
> editable both inside and outside of director, coupled
with some smart
> code to propagate changes from inside director to
outside, and vice versa. 
> (mind you I'm not actually talking about "linked
scripts", just fileIO'ing 
> a textfile, and setting the scripttext.
>
> My biggest drive for this is a way to use some sort of
source control, 
> even if only for the scripts.
>
> I think it can all be made to work pretty elegantly,
and I've been looking 
> at a few external editors that might be good candidates
to be using.
> I'm wondering if people have any opinions on any of
these:
>
> - Eclipse
> - Scite
> - Visual Studio
> - UltraEdit
>
> I'd like to pick one that can be extended to have
support for highlighting 
> / indenting and code folding of lingo code.
> I'm afraid compilation is impossible (I tried making a
"compiler" 
> projector that takes as input a scripttext, and should
return
> what if any compiler error gets thrown, but
unfortunattely the alerthook 
> only supplies the description of the problem, not the
linenumber :( )
>
> Am I missing a texteditor that maybe already has some
lingo support?
>
> Bye, Lucas
>
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