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Tutorial Actifsource Tutorial – Language
Required Time - 15 Minutes
Prerequisites - Actifsource Tutorial – Installing Actifsource
- Actifsource Tutorial – Simple Service
Goal - Enabling syntax highlighting for any programming language
Topics covered - Create a new Language
- Use the new Language
Notation ↪ To do
ⓘ Information
• Bold: Terms from actifsource or other technologies and tools
• Bold underlined: actifsource Resources
• Monospaced: User input
• Italics: Important terms in current situation
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Overview

  • Preparation
  • Create a new Language
  • Using the Language

Part I Preparation

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  • Prepare a new actifsource Project named ch.actifsource.tutorial.language as seen in the Actifsource Tutorial Simple Service

Part II Create a new Language

  • Instances of Language describe the following language elements

    • Keywords
    • Single Line Comments
    • Multi Line Comment
    • Color and font type

  • Let’s create an new Language instance for a fictitious math language

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  • Select the package language
  • Use the New Resource Tool to create a Resource of type Language

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  • Name the Language Math

  • Click Finish

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  • Define the file name extension for the new language
  • Define your keyword style: color DarkRed, fontModifier Bold
  • Define your keywords: var, add, sub, mul, div
  • Define your single line comment style: color DarkGreen, fontModifier Italic
  • Define your single line comment tag: #
  • Use a StringStyle to define string coloring

Part III Use the new Language

  • The actifsource template editor is now supporting the new Languagefor the specific file extensions
  • Let's test the new syntax highlighting

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  • Create a new Template in the Package language

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  • Name the Template Test
  • Click Finish
  • Ignore the warning “No build config selected.”

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  • In the file line, choose the file extension .math
  • The Language is Math selected automatically
  • Use Content Assist (Ctrl+Space) to select the language manually (i.e. if there is no file extension)
  • Use Ctrl+Click on the Language to open the Language Resource

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  • Add some Code using the new keywords
  • Try to write some comments

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