Asp4Hs: Script technique to Install or Swap Syntax Coloring Parsers

This script illustrates how to install a syntax coloring parser in HomeSite or to swap which parser is used for a particular file extension using a script. This can be useful as an install script to include with parser distributions or as a way to easily swap between various parsers.

To easily swap between several parsers for a particular file extension, make separate scripts for each, then create toolbar buttons for each script. For example, you could swap between "HTML Full tag coloring," "ASP/VBScript" and ASP/Jscript parsers for .ASP file editing.

Subject: Swapping Color Coding Parsers - a start ...

Here's some info about how to deal with programmatically swapping/switching color coding:

You can find the installed parsers in the registry under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Parsers where the name of the Subkey is the filename of the parser: e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\HomeSite5\Parsers\PHP 4 filename "PHP 4.scc" and the string value "Extensions" contains the extensions associated with that file.
The code below shows how to get the filenames of the installed Parsers and how to use InstallParserScript.

/*
InstallParserScript(const wsScriptFile, wsFileExtAssoc: WideString): WordBool; 
Description 
Boolean. Returns False on error. Installs a parser (color-coding)
script and associates it with the passed list of semicolon-
separated file extensions. If an existing parser is assigned to
any of these extensions, they are removed from the existing parser
and assigned to the new one. The parser script is copied from the
passed location to the application \Parsers subdirectory. 

Example 
function Main(){
  with (Application){
    InstallParserScript('D:\\Download\\XHTML_2.scc', 'xhtml');
  }
}

*/ 


function Main()
{
    var app = Application;
     
     var aFileObj=new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); 

     app.MessageBox(app.AppPath+"Parsers\\","",0);
     
    var Folder = aFileObj.GetFolder(app.AppPath+"Parsers\\");

     app.MessageBox(Folder.Name ,"",0);     

    // Get Files in current directory  
    var files = new Enumerator(Folder.files);
     
    // Loop through files  
    for(; !files.atEnd(); files.moveNext() )
       {
         app.MessageBox(files.item().Name,"",0);
       }

// app.InstallParserScript(app.AppPath+"Parsers\\PHP 4.scc", "php");        
// app.InstallParserScript('D:\\Download\\XHTML_2.scc', 'xhtml2');        
}

Credit to Christian Swoboda, e9025902@stud2.tuwien.ac.at, edited by Jeff Wilkinson

Original Post by Nick Bradbury
Date: October 02, 1998 01:49 PM
Author: Nick Bradbury

This is a feature we should have, but I'm afraid it won't be in 4.0. We will add it a later date, though.

In the meantime, there's an easier way to swap parsers. Just use the "InstallParserScript" method of HomeSite's Application object. For example, create one script that does this:

Application.InstallParserScript "c:\homesite4\parsers\asp-vbscript.scc", "htm;html;"

and another that does this:

Application.InstallParserScript "c:\homesite4\parsers\html.scc", "htm;html;"

Just change the paths to the appropriate location on your system, then create custom buttons for each script. Then you can toggle between ASP and HTML coloring in HTM/HTML documents.

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Script technique to Install or Swap Syntax Coloring Parsers

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