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Hi all,
I know this is not supported API and that it's a bit of a dark art...

I format/auto-indent fields that contain liveCodeScript using Mark Waddingham's advice here the code, which works seamlessly and always.

I colourise the script in a field using the code shown by James Hale James Hale's advice here.: Colorisation is great, but weirdly doesn't work all the time. Specifically once I get it to work then it always works until quitting LC. If I launch the stack directly (i.e. it's the first stack to be opened) it's just doesn't work through any script.

I finally realised that the simple action of opening the message box or the script editor actually fixes that so a clunky work around is to open/close the message box at preOpenStack, and then the colorisation works as expected.

Clearly there is some sort of initialisation that happens when opening the msg box but or script editor which doesn't happen when I just open my stack -- does anyone have any idea what this is and how I can include it in my stack so I don't have to use the clunky workaround of opening/closing msgBox?

Many thanks
Stam

Stam,

maybe you can try
It could be that without the long id field "x" is not resolved properly somehow.

In tinyDictionary I use a different way by the intermediary of stack "revSEUtilities
I have not seen this fail.

Kind regards
Bernd

Nearly right.

Try this with xxxx being the id of the fld x

Hi Andy,

OK, I goofed up in my sample code to pass the long id.

This code does not work!

This code compiles and actually works and sends the long id instead of just the id of the field
Of course field "xField" has to be unique.

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi Bernd,

I like this variation, one for my scrapbook

The internal colorize stuff needs to be configured before it will do anything useful. The code the SE (and message box uses) is in revseutilities... This doesn't get initialized until it is first used - the easiest thing to do is to use the utility handler Bernd suggested in there, as that ensures the current IDE's colorization theme is configured before it colorizes.

(Alternatively just prod around in that script a bit - basically you can configure keywords and classes - the former are specific colors/styles for different keyword tokens, the latter are the colors/styles for different kinds of token).

I have a plug-in that colorizes one or more portions of text in the SE. I place markers, say "XXX" at the beginning and end of the sections I want. I then just find the lines those two string live on, and (Abbreviated): I am at my home computer, where I do not do this, so I am not quite sure I have the precise name of the SE at work correctly.

Anyway, I can leave one or more pairs of markers in the SE, and colorize whenever I want.

Craig

Thanks Craig - to clarify this is regarding syntax colouring (as in the SE) but in a normal field...
My problem was that as Mark mentioned there is some initialisation required, but it's a bit dark-magic.

Not been able to yet, but I'll try the suggestions above and report back - thank you all!

S.

Thanks to LCMark, AndyP and Bernd - the solution that worked easiest is:

AndyP wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 26, 2022 1:53 pm

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put the num of chars of fld "myField" of this stack into tEndChar 
dispatch "revSEColorizeField" to stack "revseutilities" with the long id of field "myField" of this stack, 1, tEndChar