TIP: Tile and Sprite editing

CardboardGuru

Here's a tip for if you want to view or edit tiles and sprites when they are in Spin files.

UltraEdit has a customisable syntax highlighting facility. You can highlight single digits to be different colours if you want. Or better still, to have different background colours. Which is excellent for tile and sprite viewing. See the picture attached.

I added the following to C:\Program Files\UltraEdit\wordfile.txt

/L10"Spin" Line Comment = ' Block Comment On = { Block Comment Off = } String Chars = " File Extensions = Spin Nocase
Delimiters = #,$_
/C1"Hardware Registers"
VCFG VSCL
/C2"Keywords"
WAITVID
/C3"zero"
0
/C4"one"
1
/C5"two"
2
/C6"three"
3

Utraedit trial is downloadable here:
www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1

A similar trick might be possible with other editors.

AndreL

Very cool idea!

Andre'

RedNifre

Hey, that is really nice! Could this be added to the propeller IDE? Perhaps with a hotkey associated with it, so you can turn it on when looking at graphics and turn it off when looking at code?

Baggers

good idea RedNifre, it would be handier in the prop tool, cos as nice as ultraedit is, it can't replace the prop tool when it comes time to compile. it's a nice feature though.

RedNifre

Yeah, the best idea might be three modes:
1. No coloring
2. Numbers (and hex) colored
3. Only DAT sections colored

CardboardGuru

Seems like it fits as another mode for the radio buttons along the top of the edit window. Full Source, Condensed, Summary, Documentation, Tile Highlight.

I won't hold my breath though. Those Parallax guys have more good ideas than they have time and resources to implement them. Meanwhile keeping the graphics file open in Ultraedit and remembering to save it each time before compiling isn't such a hardship. Though I keep hitting Ctrl F10 in Ultraedit, and I don't know what that does.

Post Edited (CardboardGuru) : 5/20/2007 12:15:30 AM GMT