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puggsoy, posted Sun May 31, 2015 11:56 am (5506)

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I use Notepad to create and edit QuickBMS scripts (makes indentation easier). However today I looked into making custom syntax colouring and such for it, and it wasn't too hard. Basically I just made it colour various commands and data types, as well as comments and strings. It makes script a bit more readable and less bland to look at. It also allows you to collapse if statements and loops.

I've attached an XML file with the language definition. To use it, in Notepad go to Language -> Define your language, then click Import and select the XML file. It should automatically detect .bms files to be displayed using that definition.

Hopefully this is helpful for some people, I definitely think it makes scripts easier to read

aluigi, posted Sun May 31, 2015 2:00 pm (5507)

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There is also one on my website:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/userDefineLang.xml

I have only to add few recent algorithms and a couple of commands but it should be quite complete.
Maybe take a look at it too.

aluigi, posted Sun May 31, 2015 2:16 pm (5509)

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I have just updated it by adding NameCRC and Codepage plus all the remaining compression and encryption algorithm that have been introduced in the recent versions.

puggsoy, posted Sun May 31, 2015 2:24 pm (5510)

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Ah, didn't know that existed. That one's much better than mine

Guess I'll be using that now, thanks!

Delutto, posted Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:48 am (41618)

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aluigi wrote:

I have just updated it by adding NameCRC and Codepage plus all the remaining compression and encryption algorithm that have been introduced in the recent versions.

Sorry for the necropost but I can't finded this subject on another place so... there's some problem with the comment tags "/**/", you can see what I'm talking about in this script: http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/nxpk.bms

aluigi, posted Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:52 pm (41823)

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@Delutto
Here I see no problems with nxpk.bms. The only "weird" thing is that both "if" and "endif" are red but the comment is perfectly handled.

Delutto, posted Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:01 am (42548)

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aluigi wrote:

@Delutto
Here I see no problems with nxpk.bms. The only "weird" thing is that both "if" and "endif" are red but the comment is perfectly handled.

Exactly, I was talking about the Np User-defined Language, not the script itself.

z4ruz, posted Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:19 pm (64622)

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Fixed.



There are two versions:
1) fixed as shown and exported (20 KB)
2) manually patched as text (27 KB)

aluigi, posted Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:02 pm (64640)

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Great!

z4ruz, posted Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:26 pm (64734)

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Fixing resulted issue. Also added (seek_set seek_cur seek_end) to 7th group, (exit) to 1st.
Enabled folding of comments. (compact, expand) There's a great plugin used to get context help: Language Help by Franco Stellari But it's fully functional for help files in specific formats.

Quote:

The help file path may point to a local CHM, HLP, or PDF files for keyword search.
Alternatively, the field may point to a command/file that will be shell executed.
This include HTML file both on the local machine and on the internet.

The other good solution would be console like help: getdstring /?

z4ruz, posted Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:30 am (64914)

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Show commands arguments and short description.Place xml in installDir\autoCompletion

Ekey, posted Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:05 am (65012)

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Noice

z4ruz, posted Sat Jul 03, 2021 5:56 pm (65020)

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Thanks!
NP doesn't allows space as function start, sadly. That's why question mark is used.
To change the descriptions, one can either modify the resulted xml or modify the powershell script and produce new xml.
Function overload is not supported, with single exception - and it looks great! Would be good to make it for all the functions.
If someone interested to have QBMS syntax in 010 Editor, there's draft with keywords only.
Also interested to add QBMS syntax in AkelPad.