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mantaray Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 3:20:53 PM
I would like to be using visual studio to edit certain source files which are not natively supported. Say for example my own in-development script language, or the people which use Lua and other script languages. What I would like is at least the same support for custom highlighting as the editor EditPlus.

What do you think?
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feline Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 1:34:02 PM
if the hlsl are a lot like C++ then you could simply add them to VA's list of known extensions for C++, see point 5 here:

http://www.wholetomato.com/support/faq.asp

you may be able to fix minor differences by adding #define lines to:

C:\\Program Files\\Visual Assist X\\Misc\\StdAfx.h

beyond this, it is unlikely we will try to add custom support any time soon, if ever.
galopin Posted - Sep 18 2006 : 09:22:24 AM
And a support for hlsl files (gpu shaders language)? their complexity increase very quickly and the advantage of visual assist would be great for this language ( c++ with more built in type and some new call parameter semantics)

are anyone a 3D progammer her ?
feline Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 6:15:10 PM
if all you want is for certain keywords to be highlighted as keywords then adding them to the "usertype.dat" file is probably the best solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxtskDefiningKeywordsInVisualC.asp

if instead you are looking for full blown support for new languages then the answer is going to have to be no, at least for now. we already have a lot of work simply keeping up with several IDE's and all of the quirks of C++, C# and VB.

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