The Editor can't identify any single line remarks that start with a "*" 
unless the "*" is the first character of the line. The editor should ignore 
any white space characters in front of the "*", as the preprocessor and 
compiler do the same.

Also, the Editor does not recognize the (old) "&&" inline remark identifier, 
either!

I could theoretically change all "&&" in all my source code files to "//", 
but the indentation of "*" remarks makes the source code more readable, and 
I do not want to miss that feature!

Can I fix or modify this shortcoming by myself? If not, can this be fixed 
before the final release of VX?

-- Andreas

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I wrote:

>The Editor can't identify any single line remarks that start with a "*" 
>unless the "*" is the first character of the line. The editor should ignore 
>any white space characters in front of the "*", as the preprocessor and 
>compiler do the same.

>Also, the Editor does not recognize the (old) "&&" inline remark identifier, 
>either!

This also wrecks havoc with the Project Manager/Code Explorer, that can't 
display or jump to the appropriate Functions, Procedures, and Methods, if 
there is some confusing text inside those (not recognized) remarks!

This MUST be fixed! I simply can't change all of my source code to comply 
with those VX quirks!

-- Andreas

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  415 Gute Street                     or: Andreas@DDPSoftware.com
  Owosso, MI 48867-4410               or: Andreas@Aerospace-History.net
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Hi Andreas,

I can not give any promisses for the inline comment of "&&" and "NOTE"
since they are labeled as deprecated. We have to investigate in this
next year.

BUT: can you clearify what problems you have with the * comment ?
At my place any line started with * is greyed?

Regards


Andreas Herdt


Andreas Gehrs-Pahl wrote:

> The Editor can't identify any single line remarks that start with a "*"
> unless the "*" is the first character of the line. The editor should
> ignore any white space characters in front of the "*", as the preprocessor
> and compiler do the same.
> 
> Also, the Editor does not recognize the (old) "&&" inline remark
> identifier, either!
> 
> I could theoretically change all "&&" in all my source code files to "//",
> but the indentation of "*" remarks makes the source code more readable,
> and I do not want to miss that feature!
> 
> Can I fix or modify this shortcoming by myself? If not, can this be fixed
> before the final release of VX?
> 
> -- Andreas
> 
> ---                                                                     
> ---
>   Andreas Gehrs-Pahl             E-Mail: GPahl@CharterMI.net
>   415 Gute Street                    or: Andreas@DDPSoftware.com
>   Owosso, MI 48867-4410              or: Andreas@Aerospace-History.net
>   Tel: (989) 723-9927          Web Site: http://www.Aerospace-History.net
> ---                                                                     
> ---

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Andreas,

>I can not give any promisses for the inline comment of "&&" and "NOTE"
>since they are labeled as deprecated. We have to investigate in this
>next year.

If the "&&" are not recognized anymore, I can probably live with this, and 
convert all the existing code from "&&" to "//". It would help, if there 
would be an easy way to replace the character sequence:

	TAB + "&&" + SPACE 

to the new sequence:

	TAB + "//" + SPACE

as this would make sure that only my comments are changed, and not also 
literals where "&&" might be used. I suppose the Regular Expression option 
should allow me to do this, but I am pretty weak on how to use that!

>BUT: can you clearify what problems you have with the * comment ?
>At my place any line started with * is greyed?

I often have TABs in front of comments as in this example:

Function Test(cVal)
LOCAL cText := "XXX"
   do case
      *******************************
      * Call Method for Testing "A" *
      *******************************
      case cVal == "A"
         cText := SomeCode()

      *********************************
      * Call Function for Testing "B" *
      *********************************
      case cVal == "B"
         cText := SomeOtherCode()
   endcase
return

In the above example, the six remarked lines are not grayed out, and the 
words "Method" and "Function" in those remarks create problems for the 
Project Manager and Code Explorer.

If you have SPACEs in front of the "*" instead of TABs, the lines are grayed 
out as expected! So this is only a problem with leading TAB characters, as 
Mike Evans also pointed out!

-- Andreas

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  415 Gute Street                     or: Andreas@DDPSoftware.com
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Problem identified:

The problem is the tab character.

(Space)* This works ok and the comment is recognised
(Space)* By the editor

(Tab)* This is the error. Comment is not recognized.

Workaround:

o Close prg file
o Menu:    Tools->Editor Options -> Editor Tabpage
o uncheck: Use tab character
o Reopen Prg.
o Now the * comments are recognized by the editor.

Attention: I have just recognized another odditie:
I assume you have used a tab stop of 3 in your 
previous editor. I have used the same setting in
vx and reopened the file with "use tab character"
unchecked. This is my result:

Function Test(cVal)
LOCAL cText := "XXX"
        do case
                *******************************
                * Call Method for Testing "A" *
                *******************************
                case cVal == "A"
                        cText := SomeCode()

                *********************************
                * Call Function for Testing "B" *
                *********************************
                case cVal == "B"
                        cText := SomeOtherCode()
        endcase
return

This means that vx does not use the tab width that are
entered in the editor tab. It falls back to a tab with
of 8 characters. This is obviously a bug and must be fixed
as soon as possible.

I hope this does not make you stop your investigation into
vx since then I am forced to drive to Eschborn and 
fix this 

Regards


Andreas Herdt


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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Andreas 

Gehrs-Pahl wrote:

> Andreas,
> 
>>I can not give any promisses for the inline comment of "&&" and "NOTE"
>>since they are labeled as deprecated. We have to investigate in this
>>next year.
> 
> If the "&&" are not recognized anymore, I can probably live with this, and
> convert all the existing code from "&&" to "//". It would help, if there
> would be an easy way to replace the character sequence:
> 
> TAB + "&&" + SPACE
> 
> to the new sequence:
> 
> TAB + "//" + SPACE
> 
> as this would make sure that only my comments are changed, and not also
> literals where "&&" might be used. I suppose the Regular Expression option
> should allow me to do this, but I am pretty weak on how to use that!
> 
>>BUT: can you clearify what problems you have with the * comment ?
>>At my place any line started with * is greyed?
> 
> I often have TABs in front of comments as in this example:
> 
> Function Test(cVal)
> LOCAL cText := "XXX"
>    do case
>       *******************************
>       * Call Method for Testing "A" *
>       *******************************
>       case cVal == "A"
>          cText := SomeCode()
> 
>       *********************************
>       * Call Function for Testing "B" *
>       *********************************
>       case cVal == "B"
>          cText := SomeOtherCode()
>    endcase
> return
> 
> In the above example, the six remarked lines are not grayed out, and the
> words "Method" and "Function" in those remarks create problems for the
> Project Manager and Code Explorer.
> 
> If you have SPACEs in front of the "*" instead of TABs, the lines are
> grayed out as expected! So this is only a problem with leading TAB
> characters, as Mike Evans also pointed out!
> 
> -- Andreas
> 
> ---                                                                     
> ---
>   Andreas Gehrs-Pahl              E-Mail: GPahl@CharterMI.net
>   415 Gute Street                     or: Andreas@DDPSoftware.com
>   Owosso, MI 48867-4410               or: Andreas@Aerospace-History.net
>   Tel: (989) 723-9927           Web Site: http://www.Aerospace-History.net
> ---                                                                     
> ---

Andreas
I don't have any problem with "*" even if it's not first character in the line (spaces before)

Regards
Mike Evans

"Andreas Gehrs-Pahl" <Andreas@DDPSoftware.com> wrote in message news:d1akbz4ki71b.1ia8z3fnkns7.dlg@40tude.net...
> The Editor can't identify any single line remarks that start with a "*"
> unless the "*" is the first character of the line. The editor should ignore
> any white space characters in front of the "*", as the preprocessor and
> compiler do the same.
>
> Also, the Editor does not recognize the (old) "&&" inline remark identifier,
> either!
>
> I could theoretically change all "&&" in all my source code files to "//",
> but the indentation of "*" remarks makes the source code more readable, and
> I do not want to miss that feature!
>
> Can I fix or modify this shortcoming by myself? If not, can this be fixed
> before the final release of VX?
>
> -- Andreas
>
> ---                                                                      ---
>   Andreas Gehrs-Pahl             E-Mail: GPahl@CharterMI.net
>   415 Gute Street                    or: Andreas@DDPSoftware.com
>   Owosso, MI 48867-4410              or: Andreas@Aerospace-History.net
>   Tel: (989) 723-9927          Web Site: http://www.Aerospace-History.net
> ---                                                                      ---