New UserDefinedLang - colorizing keywords but not params

[gibberishbc]

NPP version: 7.7.1
UDL ver 2.1.0.12

I am creating a user-defined-language and am unsure how to work the keyword custom colorization.

As with most languages, I wish to colorize the built-in functions (such as Message(), AskLine(), ArrInfo(), etc). There are several hundred such keywords/functions to colorize.

However, the parentheses are not delimiting the function parameters from the function name. That is, the functions are not being colorized unless I click the “Prefix Mode” checkbox – but then the parentheses themselves and the parameters inside are also colorized.

Am I missing something obvious?

Example:
Message(“Title of alert”, “Text for alert”)

Either none of the above is colorized, or (if I turn on Prefix Mode), the entire line is colorized. Desired behavior is that only the keyword Message should be colorized.

[dinkumoil]

@gibberishbc

You have to define the parenthesis as operators.

In UDL dialog got to (register) Operators & Delimiter -> Operators 1 and add ( and ) (separated by space character).

See also >>> here <<< and >>> here <<< to read extensive documentation of the UDL feature.

[Ekopalypse]

@gibberishbc said in New UserDefinedLang - colorizing keywords but not params:

Message(), AskLine(), ArrInfo()

Define ( and ) as open and closing delimiter using the default colors
and allow nesting with keywords etc…

[Ekopalypse]

@dinkumoil

you posted 2 minutes before me BUT I’m 100% sure that there was nothing when I posted, how could this be??
I mean, I know that we could have answered simultaneously but I always check
if my answer is placed correctly and, as said, I didn’t see your response to OP.
Strange.

EDIT: Maybe I need more coffee :-D

[dinkumoil]

@Ekopalypse said in New UserDefinedLang - colorizing keywords but not params:

EDIT: Maybe I need more coffee :-D

STOP! I think it’s the new forum software which seems to be very buggy. Dont’t drink a coffee whenever an error occurs, you are going to ruin your body. ;-)

[Ekopalypse]

LOL :-D