Super Batch - batch file creater

[TheWinnieston]

Sweet! I'm making a batch file IDE too.

It has about a million handy features such as the Run... button, a text-to-speech feature, autosaving, a selected text editor, a snippet insterter, a switch creator window, a color picker, and much more.

But what I like about yours is, how did you do the run feature without saving it?

Thanks!

[Robobbly]

@TheWinnieston Thank you, and good luck. I have also added colour highlighting of the keywords as well in version 5. Your sounds good, and the running of the file was a problem that I came across. The simplest way of doing it is, as you would save the file, get the computer to save the text file to a specific place you know the name of e.g C:\test.bat Now if you simply type Shell("test.bat") or however you would like to run it, the program opens up. Its dependant on having a temporary file :L

[TheWinnieston]

@Robobbly Thanks. It worked! I might be asking much, but I really want to do the syntax coloring thing, too.

How on EARTH did you do that? Whenever I try to do syntax highlighting, it flickers like crazy or highlights the wrong words.

Please tell me how...

Thanks!

[Robobbly]

@TheWinnieston And ahha, thats fine :) Well i actualy used someone elses controll. I think its called highlightingtextbox so you would have to google it. Its quite usefull, and you only have to put one dll with the file so its quite good ;) Ive just uploaded versioin 5 if you wana take a look superbatch (dot) weebly (dot) com

[TheWinnieston]

@Robobbly Thanks! I'm looking for it right now...

What programming language did you use for this?

I'm using Visual Basic, but I have C++ and C#, so I can convert it if I have to.

Is highlighttextbox compatible with all programming languages?

Thanks!

[Robobbly]

@TheWinnieston Thats good.

For this i belive i used Visual Basic 2008 only, but i have used C, C#, Java and other langauges before.

I belive it should be compatable with any language that supports the Visual Studio environment, so c# c++ and things like that.

Not worries mate, hope the programming goes well! :)

[TheWinnieston]

@Robobbly Thankyou!

I'm beginning to implement this .dll file in my prog.

Wait a second...

I just got an error telling me that it can't find the .dll file.

How do I include the .dll file in my project, and how do I change the color of the words?

Thanks again!

[Robobbly]

@TheWinnieston Thats good, and make sure you have the file with your project. And once youve added it to the componants, make sure it stays in the same file path. And there should be a place in the propertised called like 'Keywords' click on that collection, and add them in and it will change all those to a diffrent colour.

No problem mate

Chears,

Robert.

[TheWinnieston]

@Robobbly OMYGOD THANXXXXXXXX SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

It WORKS!!!

Now, you know how if you type "@echo off", the "off" is red?

How did you get it to do that?

I'm a bit stumped on that one...

Thanks SOOOSOSOSOSO MUCH!!

[Robobbly]

@TheWinnieston Thats okay mate ;) Um, i think there is a place in the properties called 'variables' well i found it, put the words on and off in it, then cahgned the colour to red. :)

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

Awesome. Now all it needs is Syntax Highlighting XD.

Very nice program

[Robobbly]

@HelpMyFellowPeople I know, i dident know how to do that at the time. Have you got any hints? And i still need to make the compiler as well :D

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

@Robobbly Well the way I done it is too buggy. But the basic idea is to maybe select the text you just added after pressing spacebar and check if it matches a keyword.

[Robobbly]

@HelpMyFellowPeople Ok how does it change the indervidual colours?

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

@Robobbly RichTextBox. If the selected text matches a keyword, use RichTextBox text formating commands. Im not overly sure of the right codes to use but its the basic idea.

[Robobbly]

@HelpMyFellowPeople Ok cool thanks - only problem with that is that people might not have the richtextbox.oxc

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

@Robobbly I thought it was standard with windows?

[Robobbly]

@HelpMyFellowPeople Nope, the version used on VB comes with vb

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

@Robobbly Oh. Well thats stupid lol

[Robobbly]

@HelpMyFellowPeople Yer it is :(

[stumblinbear]

HOW DID YOU RUN CMD WITH YOUR CODE FROM WITHIN THE PROGRAM!!!

[Robobbly]

@stumblinbear My program creates a TMP file then runs it! Why do you want to use it, i can give you some code if you would like...

[stumblinbear]

@Robobbly sure!

[Robobbly]

@stumblinbear But can you tell me why you want to use it first please?

[stumblinbear]

@Robobbly I've been making one for a while. And I was looking for a way to automatically test it then i found this...

Also i can't seam to get the Save and open button to work.

[Robobbly]

@stumblinbear Ok are you useing a richtextbox or a textbox because im useing a textbox which some people find more compilicated but its more compatable :D

Can i see yours?

[stumblinbear]

@Robobbly A text box, what's your email?

[Robobbly]

@stumblinbear Ill pm my email...

[Robobbly]

@CzSoft Thats ok - just the richtextbox control would be fine thank you!

[Robobbly]

@CzSoft Ok i will, doing it now...

[GrellesLicht28]

I would rather call this an editor than a batch file creator, even though it can start the file instantly.

[Robobbly]

@GrellesLicht28 Thanks for comment, well creater editor its the same thing realy... :D