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string highlighting bug

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manarius:
i know its not important, cause there seem to be no player-felt bugs because of this,
and i think you know it already,
but its kind of disturbing if you encounter it the first time:

if you write for example:

ITEM.SetImage("items\png\"+anythinguseful+".sprite");

the highlighting ist completely screwed, ".sprite" is black, while the rest is grey and the engine makes that purple bar which indicates script errors.

as i said, its not anyway relevant for the player, its just a bit confusing for me.

cheers,
manarius

ps:
i think its because of the \ in the string?

jbw:

--- Quote from: manarius on April 18, 2008, 05:26:29 PM ---ITEM.SetImage("items\png\"+anythinguseful+".sprite");

the highlighting ist completely screwed, ".sprite" is black, while the rest is grey and the engine makes that purple bar which indicates script errors.

--- End quote ---

The \" sequence is misunderstood by color highlighter as escaped quote. To get rid of annoyning purples I always write such lines as follows:

--- Code: ---ITEM.SetImage("items\png\"+anythinguseful[i]+".sprite");//"

--- End code ---
If the path "items\png\" is used more than once, you can define it as constant named e.g. IPNG, then use:

--- Code: ---ITEM.SetImage(IPNG+anythinguseful[i]+".sprite");
--- End code ---
with perfect highlighting.

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