Thread: Code colouring

I saw 0 good reasons to go Open Source, and 1 good reason why i shouldn't:

So that others may look at it [source code]

I just find it ironic that people who voted against code tags should be in favour of coloured crayons for writing code

The reason I voted no is not because they are useless. Because I thought script may not be helpful. Don't get angry of me, change my vote if it is really that important.

I am now making big changes to my painter. It will have an option dialog, and will have capability to add or remove keywords. Its code can go muchbetter than this. I will make it better, then I open it source.

mrafcho001: Ok, so you are selfish when it comes to your code... the only reason I could ever see not going OS is when it is a proprietary project that would be hard to sell support for. These programs I assume are never going to marketed other than free.

Also the reason you want others to be able to look at your code... consider where the linux project would be without the thousands of people who have worked on it. I have found bugs in OS software, found out how to fix it, and sent the diff in to the manager of the project. That is one less bug they have to worry about.

mrafcho001: If you want to stick to your code in a pathetique display of intelectual property, be my guest. Probably your code is just too good for everyone else. You are a guru and your techniques are very valuable trade secrets. I'm sure you are serious in your attempt to make money out of your code. Yeah.

Now you can change keywords and they will be saved on HDD for future use.

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MS Form designer is knocked out and I'm writting the code myself. It gives error about circular ownership and HRESULT- E_UNEXPECTED and doesn't work.

Probably not long... wouldn't be hard to make something that parses text then puts [color=#<random 6hex number>]<letter>[/color]. Assuming because the spaces have color tags too... this is what was done.

Can we download it to at least test it?

Where can I place it? I mean a site so you can download it.

Any of the many free webhosts on the internet.

[edit] I don't think your highlighter does what it's supposed to here:

Code:

/*//*/

/*//*/

[color="green"]/*/[/color][color="green"]/*/[/color]

It looks okay, but (besides the redundant double quotes) I think that it worked by a fluke, detecting /*//*/ as two separate comments, /*/ and /*/, judging by the colouring. Try this:

Code:

/* foo // bar */

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Any of the many free webhosts on the internet.

Of course, but I don't have any in mind. And lazy to google. Just direct me to a good one please.

I can't recommend any one in particular. frandt.com was the best one around when I was looking for free webhosts, but that was a few months ago.

[edit] Ugh, look what you get when you google for frandt:

Code:

FRandT - OfflineFRandT. This site is temporarily unavailable. Please notify the System Administrator. 2.
www.frandt.com/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

You might try thefreecountry.com.
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If you give it this

Code:

/*//*/ 
/* foo // bar */

/*/

It gives you this:

Code:

[COLOR="Green"]/*//*/[/COLOR.] 
[COLOR="Green"]/* foo // bar */[/COLOR.]

/*/