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malloys
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16 years ago

Eclipse plugin for Brightscript

I've thrown together a quick and dirty Eclipse plugin containing a very basic BrightScript file editor with syntax coloring and tab/indent preferences only.
It's beta quality and doesn't have the bells and whistles of full language support, but this plugin should be a step up from using a plain-text editor.
The keywords list is a subset of the complete list, and the categories are not complete yet - but it's a start.
This plugin has only been tested on Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) so far, but it should work on 3.6 (I'll upgrade & test in the next week or so).


A full-featured plugin (i.e. syntax checking, auto-completion/suggestion, templates, on-line help, builder, debugger, project wizards, etc.) *may* be in the works if there's sufficient interest from both the developer community and Roku.

I'll be posting at least a few updates to this plugin over the next couple of weeks, so I've set up an Eclipse update site to make things easier for anyone interested:
Using the typical Eclipse software install mechanism (Help->Install New Software), the eclipse update site URL to add to your Eclipse instance via the above dialog's Add button is:
http://www.domhain.com/eclipse/updates

The above website has absolutely nothing but the plugin on it at the moment, so any feedback (which is very much welcome) should be posted to this thread for now.

Enjoy.

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