XIDE: Unexpected behavior in the editor

[Irwin]

Hi Chris,

Look at this picture

I suspect the editor believes I'm performing a TEXT / END TEXT (because of the variable name) operation because is highlighting everything as a string but that's not true. When I delete or comment this line text := row["text"]:ToString():Trim() then the editor highlights everything without any problem.

This isn't harmful (I can solve the problem by renaming my "text" variable), but it is a small issue that needs to be fixed at some point in the future

[Chris]

Hi Irwin

You discovered my dirty way of highlighting TEXT TO strings

Not sure what's the correct way to do it, so that it always works correctly, is it enough to decide that a command is a TEXT command when it starts with "TEXT TO" or "TEXT INTO"?

[robert]

Chris,
The compiler uses a UDC to convert the various TEXT commands into a #text preprocessor command.
Basically it matches:

TEXT
TEXT TO <something>
TEXT INTO <something>

The #text preprocessor command is quite complicated. I'll explain some other time.

Robert