UEStudio - Syntax Highlighting

[Otto]

I found out that for proper syntax high lighting it is important that keywords must be alphabetically sorted, lower case (msgInfo!) and that at the end of the line there must be a space character

This line and some other not proper lines are in the provided wordfile.uew:
maximized mdichild method memvar msgInfo msgBeep message menu menuitem msglogo
should be changed to:
maximized mdichild memvar menu menuitem message method msgbeep msginfo msglogo

Regards,
Otto

[Antonio Linares]

Otto,

Thanks for the info

[frose]

Hi,

while adding FiveWin functions to my wordfile.txt, I’m wondering why some terms are highlighted others not.

My terms weren’t in alphabetically order, so I tried, what Otto proposed, but it fails.

After some more tests I found these two rules, which are useful for me:

1 - You can have more than one line for one starting character, e. g.:

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L2Hex LbxGetItem
LineTo LoadBitmap
LoadIcon LoadString LoadCursor

2 - Don’t mix terms starting with upper and lower case in one line, that’s obviously the reason for the unproper highlighting, e. g.:

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lAnd LbxGetItem lChDir LoadCursor lWRunning

So for the character ‘L’, these two lines are in my wordfile.txt:

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lAnd lChDir lIsDir lMkDir lWRunning
L2Hex LbxGetItem LineTo LoadBitmap LoadIcon LoadString LoadCursor LPToDP LZCopyFile
 

For me it doesn’t depend of sorted terms, it also works with unsorted terms and also no need of a space character at the EOL.