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seems unanimous for now

but maybe adding options on Tools > Settings or whatever would be nice for those who don't use that "method"

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OK. Thanks.


Well adding autocompletion and tooltips for most of the commands is not problem.
They work fine.


Problem arises with detecting and parsing commands like this (example):



There is CAR_DATA, then space then = then space again.
Then the open bracket, few floats, close bracket and few more commands separated with spaces.

Pretty difficult to detect and parse such stuff but i will do my best.
It will just take some more time. I will try to make some small test app with simple strings and the port it to MisPad code.

Solving problem piece by piece is easier.

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Hmm, you are trying to make it context-sensitive. That's a noble goal but usually not necessary - just list everything starting with the given letters. Showing upon the 1st letter is fine - you've filtered the list by 26:1 already. (Approximately.)

If I want to write COLLECT_02 as a parameter value, I can write CO, press Down once and then Return or Space would autocomplete it. There won't be any commands or "litter" in the list since no commands start with CO.

Aliases would be good. Let me write ROCKET_LAUNCHER in my GENERATOR declares when I want a Rocket Launcher powerup, just like GIVE_WEAPON uses. It would be silently converted behind-the-scenes into COLLECT_02 at compile-time, so the .scr stayed valid. This breaks compatibility with MisPad, so maybe a "Use Old Constants" setting would be handy until your one becomes the best mission editor.

Have a look round people's .mis files to see what coding styles are popular, logical, internally consistent or reasonable in other ways. Support those ones as much as possible.

TM can help with parsing the script properly, I would think. His editor topic includes the lexical (sp?) syntax definition files which I found. Might have been bundled with DMA compiler or some other documentation they released?

My incomplete CFG Studio 2 parses and auto-detects nearly all text-based data files from 3D GTA editions. The byte-by-byte tokeniser for that was (very badly) written by me. It works. If I can do it... well...

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Thanks Ben. Very useful post from you.
I downloaded your CFG Studio, very interesting parsing code in there.
When i will get back home from work, i will look at it more deeply.


I don't quite understand this part:



Can you explain a bit more?

You want Rocket Launcher to be converted into collectible?
Or something like that?


GTG to work soon.

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I guess he wants to be able to do:



instead "[...]90.12 ) 0 COLLECT_02 120 240", because that would make things 100 times easier, then when saving/compiling, it would get changed into COLLECT_02, MACHINE_GUN into COLLECT_01 et cetera.

Or if thet gets confusing then maybe add notes on the auto-complete list, like:



would also help

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Yeah, what Gus said!

We'd have to introduce new constants such as MULTIPLIER_PLUS_ONE and HEALTH. They don't already exist for GIVE_WEAPON or other commands.

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I think the core functions should be done first before anything clever/fancy is put in. While I agree it would be nicer putting something like ROCKET_LAUNCHER into a generator command compared to the un-helpful COLLECT_02, I do find Gustavob's idea quite useful as a middle-ground for both practicality and functionality.

Of course, if it was done Gustavob's way (saying what a COLLECT_02 is etc) then the colour for the description text should be a different colour so the person knows it's not actual code. The example below is an extension on Gustavobs idea, you start typing the first two letters of a command (in this case "CO") and shows up the list:



Besides, any smart person would annotate their code to know what they are anyway I group my weapons by type so it's extremely easy to find/understand. If you can get this to work, it'd be awesome in other places for code too

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ROCKET_LAUNCHER enum already exists.

I think best would be something like CL_RO... -> COLLECT_02 and CL_PI... -> COLLECT_00

But why do we need to do all this if we could just use my editor to actually see what and where they are? (assuming i had the object placing feature done and the ability to write code directly in my editor XD)

Properly? sweet dreams. If you want to parse it properly, you have to do it exactly like mis compiler does it, and believe me.... it's not worth it... thats why i want to make mis2 format. I've told this many times...
No, I made those syntax definition lists up myself from various sources.

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Can you name your project something else?

It's not the same program anymore, people shouldn't get confused.

GTA2 MissEd?

Missed lol.

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I picked up new name for the tool: GTA2 ScriptPad.
If somebody can suggest better name, post it.

Also some more news:
I got the tooltips for commands like:



almost working.



There are some tricky moments after last closing bracket.
I worked on the current working stuff whole night yesterday but now i have to go to work again. And when i will get back i will continue messing with it.

Autocompletion also works for most of the commands, but i disabled it for the video.
Adding commands to autocompletion is easy but for tooltips like this it takes alot of time.
So not all of them are added atm.


Share your comments please.

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ScriptPad is a good name. Auto completion will be useful. mispad already has ctrl+space completion but would be better if I didn't have to push that and Windows defaults to stealing that key combination for switching language on some systems. I'll watch the video later.

Thanks Sektor.

Yes, the autocompletion is automatic in ScriptPad. That's why it's called autocompletion.
MisPad completion actually was manual. You had to press Ctrl+Space to make it pop up.

Ok, good day.
Gotta drive to work now.

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Ok, tooltips for parameters with spaces are working now
Also small demo of autocompletion and folding.



Autocompletion of course (including tooltips) always could be improved.
But i have to go to sleep now. I will continue later.

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Sektor

I think it's time to rename this thread to GTA2 ScriptPad or make new topic and move all posts related to new mis editor to the new topic.
It's not mispad anymore. You decide.

EDIT: nvm, i didn't now that i can also change topic name.
So i changed.


Anyway, i decided to cleanup autocompletion items list. I only left the real commands that actually tell GTA2 to do something and declarations. This speeds up autocompletion.

I left out things like:


etc. Just some examples.

And the commands like the ones below are in the autocompletion currently:

Etc.

Maybe i will add option to choose from: full autocompletion list or the minimal autocompletion.
What do you think guys?

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those objects can be useful but most time you will have to look them up before anyway (Sounds for example). other things like doorlocks would be handy but its not easy to tell what is important and what not. i think the best way would be to allow the user to choose between full and limited autocompletion.

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Turning the natural name of constants into the GBHscript name of objects is the most useful thing autocompletion could do. And there's a relatively easy, lo-fi way to do this whilst keeping compatible with Mis Pad. Here's what I have in mind:

1. Type "pistol" in the weapon name part of a GENERATOR.
2. Press Ctrl+Space.
3. It is replaced by COLLECT_01.
4. A comment is added to the end if the line, which simply says // pistol.
5. Now my command is valid and I can make sense of it thanks to the comment, without having to refer to a big list of numerical weapon constants, AND it's compatible with Mis Pad.

Here's a full example. This is what I've typed:

Now I press Ctrl+Space and it becomes:

The vertical bar represents the text cursor (aka the insertion point). So I can continue typing the other parameters. If any of these later parameters get replaced, the comment just gets longer.

Predictive Code
A more sophisticated logic could be developed on this string-based searching and mapping. If I make a GENERATOR whose name includes "pistol", ScriptPad could suggest COLLECT_00 once I get to that part of the command. This would work with editing a command, so a new name would give new suggestions if I moved the insertion point to a parameter which didn't match that name.

Mappings would be many-to-one and use case-insensitive substring matching. The most popular 3 names for each GENERATOR type could be supported, as a maximum. Such as "rocket", "zooka" and "rpg" being mapped to COLLECT_02. Many would only need one of these pseudo-aliases. Such as "pistol" becoming COLLECT_00.

Syntax completio
A few ways to do this but how about I start with this:

Now I press Ctrl+Space and it becomes:

The part between underscore characters would be selected text.

Other Applications
Car names are a prime candidate for this automated editing.

The tooltips will be very handy in gang zone setups, phone templates and other complex commands. The bonus lists for cranes spring to mind!

(EDIT) Ah, cannot underline within a code sample.

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I like Ben's suggestions but I would rather suggest Ctrl+Return instead Ctrl+space because it is already used as default key combination for other softwares and may eventually mess some things up. But something that would make it somewhat better for users would be the ability to choose their own key combinations like in Notepad++

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So you don't like automatic codecompletion?
You like pressing Ctrl+Space each time?

Or you just want that Ctrl+Space will display the autocompletion list whenever and whereever you want? Like Mispad ctrl+space does.

Correct?

I will try, to see how they work with each other.


EDIT: i wonder why forum didn't notified me about Ben and Gustavob new posts here.

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