Eclipse plugin for Brightscript

Awsome. I just got a Roku and downloaded the SDK so I'm anxious to try out the plugin.

Good show! :mrgreen:

Cheers.

The plugin has been updated and posted to the update site http://www.domhain.com/eclipse/updates .

Just a reminder, but this is an eclipse plugin install-compatible site URL, so your best bet is to add it to your "Available Software Sites" in Eclipse (Help->Install New Software...->Add...) and then add the URL and give it a site name.
Once the site is selected, the BrightScript feature category should just show up.
Then you've got the usual advantages of automatic and over-the-wire updates, and plugin dependency checking and resolution.


Changes for this version (1.0.1.201008241730) are:

a) Support for Eclipse version 3.6 (Helios)
b) Many new syntax categories and keywords for those new categories (based on mainmanc's original list for EditPlus - thanks!)
c) Removal of unused elements in both the Editor and Syntax Coloring BrightScript preferences dialogs.
d) Removal of single quotes as string delimeters
e) Use of one of the SDK example source files in the Syntax Color Preview window in Syntax Coloring Preferences dialog (Window->Preferences->BrightScript->Editor->Syntax Coloring).

The example file for (e) above is not ideal for the task, so I'll probably be changing that out in the next rev.
If anyone wants to try to provide a brief but illustrative example file to demonstrate all the new syntax categories, I'll include it in the next update.
I'll also update the words list for each of the categories in the next rev with any missing words, so please let me know if you find a keyword that's not being colored for any given category.


Cheers

I'm not seeing this exception in my installations of either 3.5 or 3.6, but I'll be sure to look into this further.
How did you install the plugin?
Did you manually download and unzip it, or did you use the "Install New Software..." dialog?

"malloys" wrote:
I'm not seeing this exception in my installations of either 3.5 or 3.6, but I'll be sure to look into this further.
How did you install the plugin?
Did you manually download and unzip it, or did you use the "Install New Software..." dialog?

Through the Install New Software dialog.

"hoffmcs" wrote:

"malloys" wrote:
I'm not seeing this exception in my installations of either 3.5 or 3.6, but I'll be sure to look into this further.
How did you install the plugin?
Did you manually download and unzip it, or did you use the "Install New Software..." dialog?

Through the Install New Software dialog.

Sorry, forgot to ask...
Which specific version (3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2), and which base package (JavaEE, Java, Classic, PHP, etc.) are you using?

"malloys" wrote:
Sorry, forgot to ask...
Which specific version (3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2), and which base package (JavaEE, Java, Classic, PHP, etc.) are you using?

3.5.2, Java Package

OK, I've reproduced the problem and tracked down the cause.

It looks like the dependency list in the packaged feature/plugin is incorrect and points to an older version of one of the underlying supporting plugins.
I'll be packaging up a fixed version of the BrightScript plugin soon.

If you can't wait for the update, there is an easy workaround:
Use the software install dialog, and install the DLTK 2.0 Core Frameworks plugin from the DLTK update site (http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/updates/)... then restart Eclipse, and you should be good to go.

Cheers

"malloys" wrote:
OK, I've reproduced the problem and tracked down the cause.

It looks like the dependency list in the packaged feature/plugin is incorrect and points to an older version of one of the underlying supporting plugins.
I'll be packaging up a fixed version of the BrightScript plugin soon.

If you can't wait for the update, there is an easy workaround:
Use the software install dialog, and install the DLTK 2.0 Core Frameworks plugin from the DLTK update site (http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/updates/)... then restart Eclipse, and you should be good to go.

Cheers

That did the trick. Thanks.

FYI, I've begun work on a second, more full-featured plugin for Eclipse that will include at a minimum, the following features:

• Syntax checking/error highlighting and reporting ( mostly done, just debugging it now, but will probably need to fine-tune the BrightScript parser a bit more ).
  


• Structure outline with hyperlinking to Functions/Subs ( done ).


• Code folding ( mostly done, need to integrate deeper AST processing ).


• New Project wizard ( done ).


• References/Declaration search ( mostly done, need to integrate deeper AST processing ).


• Hover help/Online documentation ( started, but docs repackaging for this purpose will take some time ).


• Code assist/Autocompletion ( not started ).


• Code templates ( started ).


• Builder & Deployment wizard i.e. packaging and uploading the code to the box ( not started ).


• Launcher and Debugger integration (i.e. with the on-box Roku debugger) ( not started ).


• Preference pages for most of the above ( started ).

While "in beta" I plan on making this available for free.
Once "in production", this will be trialware, with a small, but reasonable purchase price.
BTW, the current basic plugin with just the syntax color-coding and tab/indentation prefs will stay free.

Anyone interested in the full-featured version?
Please let me know on this thread, so that I can gauge interest and plan my dev time accordingly.

Cheers