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Net.Data & the UltraEdit
Program Editor
by
Bob Cancilla, IGNITe/400
UltraEdit32 from www.ultraedit.com
is a lowcost very high function program editor. One
of the features of this editor is the ability to extend
its ability to recognize language contexts and structures.
The attached instructions and the wordfile.txt necessary
to implement the Net.Data extensions were researched
by James Zhang, a web developer with which I have the
pleasure of working. These words are mine, but James
did the research and put this togehter. There is a wordfile.txt
at the bottom of the article that you may freely download
(at your own risk of course) and use freely.
Figure 1: A Net.Data Macro opened in the customized
UltraEdit Program Editor
If we examine the
macro displayed above, you will notice that tags are
displayed in green, parameters are displayed in gray,
and Net.Data macro language key words are displayed
in blue. In the column tot he right, Net.Data functions
and %HTML sections are listed. You may double click
on a function name or HTML Section name and the editor
will position to the referenced item.
The editor does not
do syntax checking, or display help for a Net.Data function,
but it certainly helps move arround a complex macro
and identify Net.Data constructs.
Download
the WORDFILE.TXT
Here in James words
is his explanation:
| Customizing
UltraEdit32 for Net.Data
UltraEdit32 can
be set up for different programming languages
by highlighting the language key words. It does
not check syntax. UltraEdit32 version 8.20a+ that
we use has following languages preset:
" C/C++
" Visual Basic
" HTML
" Java
" Perl
" XML
" C#
" ASM
" Pascal
There is a configuration
file named "wordfile.txt" (located in
x:\Program Files\UltraEdit\) that contains the
settings. It allows user to put their own customized
settings such as a new language. Each language
in the file starts with the tag /L, if you take
look this file, you will find the language tag
like:
/L1 "C/C++"
..
/L2"Visual
Basic" ..
.
.
/L9"Pascal"
Each language
section has several tags to specify the language
key words, function etc.
I created a new
language called "Netdata" and put it
at the end of the file. The following code illustrates
the settings I used:
/L10"NetData"
Line Comment = // Block Comment On = %{ Block
Comment Off = %} Block Comment On Alt = /* Block
Comment Off Alt = */ String Chars = "' File
Extensions = MAC HTI D2W
/Function String = "^{%[%a-Az-Z]*)*{^}^{function
*(*)^}"
/C1"Keywords"
**@DTW
break
case continue
do
else
false for
if
new null
return
switch
true this
while
ELIF ELSE ENDIF
MESSAGE
IF INCLUDE
WHILE
/C4"Operators"
+
-
=
/
%
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>
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^
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Please notice the /L10"NetData" line
is wrapped for presentation here, in the configuration
file "wordfile.txt", this line must
be on one line. The File Extensions = MAC HTI
D2W is the setting for UltraEdit to reorganize
the file type, user can specify any extensions
separated by blank character. The /Function String
set to show functions in function list. The /C1"Keyword"
set up key words, the key words list in this section
must be in alphabetical order. I try to set up
key words and operators for Net.Data and JavaScript,
user can put their favorite key word or operator
to the list.
The benefit from this set up for me is:
1. It highlights the key word and the comment
with different colors.
2. View function list, it lists the summary of
all the Net.data and JavaScript functions in function
list window, include the %HTML section. This is
the most useful feature I used all the time.
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