Hey guys!
I’m looking for a way to add custom keywords to the syntax highlighting of the MAXScript editor.
There are a few recurring global variables in our current project and highlighting them could greatly improve readibillity.
Is this actually possible?
Cheers!
-Sascha
Hi Sascha,
You can define custom keywords like this:
*Open the MAXScript Editor
*In the Tools menu of the Editor, select “Open MAXScript.properties”
*Locate the section
keywords12 is for user defined words to be colorized. Keywords are checked for in this list first
keywords12.$(file.patterns.MAXScript)=
and change it to
keywords12 is for user defined words to be colorized. Keywords are checked for in this list first
keywords12.$(file.patterns.MAXScript)=
Sascha Crytek Rocks
You can keep on adding keywords to the list separated by spaces.
Each new line should be terminated by a \ for the next line to be part of the same definition.
Then press Ctrl+S, open a new script and type in
Sascha from Crytek Rocks
You can then modify the coloring of custom keywords if you don’t want them to be red and italic.
Scroll down in the MAXScript.properties file and locate the lines
Keywords12 – User defined
style.MAXScript.23=fore:#FF0000,bold,italics
You can change these to give your own keywords the desired color and style.
For example,
style.MAXScript.23=fore:#0040F0,bold
results in
Sascha from Crytek Rocks
To make it even more simple, copy and paste the code Bobo said to the MXS_Userproperties file, this acts as an override for the other property files. It leaves them intact, you can easily distribute just the Userproperties file and everybody is synced.
And if you want a new syntax coloring maybe check out:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=6219706&postcount=21
-Johan