Whoa – thanks for reporting this James
already started to wonder what the hell is going on with autointending – so i switched it off here . Fixed it inprompto and new version is online (same link)

Nice work.
But only the Font is not changed .I use Max 2010 64Bit.

I install this font already… But the Font isn’t changed… I don’t know where is the problem.

Me, myself and my eyes thank you spacefrog.

Looking forward to showing this off monday morning.

Cheers, thanks for sharing

Thanks for the feedback …

just updated the package to 1.2c (same link)
Klaas Nienhuis ( @scriptspot) found an error dealing with verbatim string ( caused by another typo ). This is now fixed. Additionally i changed the caret color to some darker gry, to make it more visible on white backgrounds ( this is a global setting )

still the first thing I install when I get to work on a new computer (I have to change a lot).
Would it be possible to implement something to have floating maxscript editor windows?
So that it would be possible to be viewing 2 maxscript windows at the same time.

Thnx again for this amaizing script!

thanks for the nice feedback – very appreciated

The split-view or even only mutliple window options is not possible with the Maxscript editor. As it’s based on SciTE/Scintilla it inherits all of SciTE’s limitations, and this is one …
I would like to have that feature too, but as i said – this is not possible

This is a post from Neil answering some request on some SciTE forum ( Neil being the original Scintilla/SciTE author)

> I use it for everything, but am having to jump around a lot and a
> split screen would be a very big help. I have checked the site, but did
> not see anything other than the output pane.
>
> Is it possible as it now stands and I am missing it or could it be
> done?

This is not supported. It could be done. I’m not sure if it would
be a beneficial feature as it adds complexity and it is very easy to
start a second copy of SciTE.

Neil

Thank you. This should be the default style for 2012, not that max scripters eyesight is a big concern to them.

Another correction…

colour.string.verbatim:fore:#CB7A7A

should be…

colour.string.verbatim=fore:#CB7A7A

And just for fun, here are the extra settings I add…

Autocomplete

autocompleteword.automatic=1
autocomplete..ignorecase=1
autocomplete.choose.single=0
autocomplete..start.characters=$(chars.alpha)$(chars.numeric)$_@#.
api.*.ms=maxscript.api

Editor Behavior

home key goes to far left beginning of line

vc.home.key=0

open up to 20 files at once

buffers=20

show file tabs on multiple lines

tabbar.multiline=1

highlighted a file name in a script and open that file using Ctrl-Shift-O

I use this with files I’m adding to a script using include or fileIn

openpath..ms=<my script functions folder>
open.suffix..ms=.ms

Ctrl-O defaults to the directory of the currently active file

open.dialog.in.file.directory=1

To use autocomplete with the maxScript .api file, first you need the file. Below is a script that will generate it for you. Then, as you start typing you’ll see maxScript commands that match.

To autocomplete words that are already in the current script you’re working on, start typing a few characters and then press Ctrl-Enter.

In both cases you get a drop down box you can use the arrow keys to scroll through, and then hit Enter to select the one you want. If there is only one choice, hitting Enter will select it automatically.

fn createMaxscriptApiFile =
(
	local filteredSS, ss, filePath, fStream
	filteredSS = stringstream ""
	ss = stringstream ""
	
	apropos "" to:ss
	seek ss 0
	while not eof ss do
	(
		l = readLine ss
	
		if matchPattern l pattern:"*#struct:*" then
		(
			n = (filterString l " ")[1]
			l = readLine ss
			while matchPattern l pattern:"*public,*" do
			(
				format "%.%
" n (trimLeft (filterString l ":")[1] " ") to:filteredSS
				l = readLine ss
			)
		)
		else if matchPattern l pattern:"*(const *" then
		(
			format "%
" (filterString l " ")[1] to:filteredSS
		)
	)
	
	filePath = getDir #maxroot + @"\maxscript.api"
	if not doesFileExist (getFilenamePath filePath) then filePath = getDir #temp + @"\maxscript.api"
	if not doesFileExist filePath then 
	(
		createFile filePath
	)
	if getFileAttribute filePath #readOnly then
	(
		setFileAttribute filePath #readOnly false
	)
	fStream = openFile filePath mode:"w+"
	format "%" (filteredSS as string) to:fStream
	close fStream
	free ss
	 edit filePath
)
createMaxscriptApiFile()