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From: mayayana on 1 Feb 2010 21:00

> Just in case you haven't noticed it already, there is a freeware
> "VBScript Editor with Intellisense" offered by Rajneesh Noonia
> on the Code Project website:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/VbScript_Editor_With_Inte.aspx
>

You can get the same thing at PlanetSourceCode.
The Code Project requires people to join up in order
to download. PlanetSourceCode doesn't:

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=69148&lngW
Id=1

> Also (nitpick, nitpick) it appears that Rajneesh is using an RTF
> (rich-text) control for colorizing the code, and using the RTF
> control usually turns out to be messy and slow.

RichEdit is not slow. But using the RichEdit OCX,
especially wrapped in yet another OCX, is not
great. Any OCX will be slower than direct API
because it's going through a wrapper library.

In any case, how many people are going to
compile their own editor? And if they did, why
would they compile it as a control?



From: mr_unreliable on 2 Feb 2010 12:39
mayayana wrote:
> In any case, how many people are going to
> compile their own editor?

Only those cheap enough (like me) who wish to avoid
paying for PrimalScript...

> And if they did, why would they compile it as a control?
>

That was Rajneesh Noonia's way of doing it. I can't
answer for him. However, his download comes with a
vb "wrapper", i.e., a vb form that hosts the editor
control, which will compile to an exe.

cheers, jw
From: mayayana on 2 Feb 2010 13:44
>> In any case, how many people are going to
>> compile their own editor?

> Only those cheap enough (like me) who wish to avoid
> paying for PrimalScript...

You don't have to be cheap to not want to
pay for Primal Script. Last I saw it was about
$300. For that price I'd expect it to take out
the rubbish and do the dishes, which it apparently
does not do. :) When I've tried it in the past it's
seemed quite serviceable, but not remarkable.

On the other hand, I don't really use things
like break points. Even with large projects in Visual
Studio I've never really found those "standard code
editor" features useful.

But isn't vbsEdit still free except for the nag
window? I've only tried that a bit, but it seems
to have the basics. (Intellisense, syntax coloring.)
For anyone who can't afford -- or doesn't want to
pay -- any price at all, vbsEdit seems to me like a
good deal.

> I can't
> answer for him. However, his download comes with a
> vb "wrapper", i.e., a vb form that hosts the editor
> control, which will compile to an exe.
>

I tried it out a bit. I wasn't able
to try it very much because I can't go to the
2nd line. I'm not sure what's stopping it. It
looks like he wrote code to do some operation
(syntax coloring?) at the end of each line and
that code is not done. The caret flashes on
line 2 before jumping back to the end of line 1.
.....It looks to me like it's a fairly simple demo
project that's not entirely finished.


From: Auric__ on 3 Feb 2010 09:58
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:07 GMT, mayayana wrote:

> On the other hand, I don't really use things
> like break points. Even with large projects in Visual
> Studio I've never really found those "standard code
> editor" features useful.

I imagine that probably puts you in the minority. While I don't absolutely
*have* to use breakpoints, it beats the hell out of stepping through the
entire project until I get to the right place or whatever (especially if I'm
testing something that, say, requires me to load a window, select a menu
item, load another window, enter some text, and click OK).

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You are open to whatever the universe may do.
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