[Gambas-user] Scripter new version Bug

[Brian G]

I don't understand, your note regarding the other source types
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Brian Sunday, 07 March 2021, 11:03AM -08:00 from Benoît Minisini  g4mba5 at gmail.com :

>Le 07/03/2021 à 18:01, Brian G a écrit :
> Scripter  option --convert-project creates an error right now as  it 
> uses the new #Script Startup=xx format.
> when you run the generated script it will cause a syntax error.
>
> The latest version of scripter now fails because #Script has been turned 
> into a keyword PreProcess command after the initial commit of the 
> scripter causing scripter not to recognize the keyword, A patch that 
> fixes scripter to accommodate this has been submitted for merge.
>
> In the mean time for simple scripts, deleting this line from the output 
> script should work a treat.
> Lines starting with #Script can be deleted for now.
>
> "Failure is the key to success;
>  each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
> Brian G
>
>
>Hi,
>
>The merge request has been merged
>
>A few remarks:
>
>1) I now realize the misunderstanding about Highlight.Analyze() and 
>Highlight.Types.
>
>If an analyzed token is told to be 'Highlight.XXXX', it does not mean 
>that the token is syntactically 'XXXX', but that it will be highlighted 
>as 'XXXX'.
>
>So if '#SCRIPT' has the type 'Highlight.Preprocessor', it does not 
>-necessarily- mean that you are in a preprocessor line. Even if it is 
>very likely. It just tells you that the Gambas reader detected a token 
>named '#SCRIPT' that will be highlighted with 'Highlight.Preprocessor' 
>style.
>
>I don't know if I was clear...
>
>Concretely, what tells you that you have a preprocessor line is the 
>first non-space character of the line being "#".
>
>2) There are possible optimizations in the TokenizeFile() function. For 
>example:
>
>- Storing Highlight.Symbols and Highlight.Types in local variables for 
>faster access.
>
>- Use `If  == "ABCD"` instead of `If UCase( ) = "ABCD"`.
>
>- Check for '#' at the start of the line before doing its specific 
>script commands checks. Or directly check that the first token starts 
>with a '#'.
>
>3) When you write a commit log, please follow exactly the requested 
>format described in the 'README.commit' file:
>
>
>
>[SCRIPTER]
>* BUG: Fixed bug #1.
>* NEW: Add feature #2.
>* OPT: Scripter is now faster!
>
>And be careful with English (even if I make a lot of mistakes myself!).
>
>Otherwise the automatic log compilation cannot work, and I have to 
>rewrite the log by hand for each commit. My time is better spent 
>somewhere else.
>
>It's not dramatic at the moment, as a lot of commit log will be removed 
>from the ChangeLog, the ones who are internal changes and not new 
>features or bug fixes of precedently implemented features.
>
>4) By reading the code of TokenizeFile(), I see support for apparently 
>embedding classes (ok), modules (why not), form (??) and connections 
>(????). But nothing for the other Gambas source file types.
>
>I didn't see anything about that in the list of changes you sent me. Did 
>I miss it? Or is it an hidden feature? Something not yet implemented? 
>Otherwise why did you implement that?
>
>Anyway, thanks for your work!
>
>Regards,
>
>-- 
>Benoît Minisini
>
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