C++ Syntax highlighting?

Tru_Power22 · Dec 6, 2009

Well, I'm just thinking, we have it for Jass and PHP. But PHP tag isn't used a whole lot (I find). One that would be used much more is C++. I mean look at the programming forum. Ever second post is about C++ (or C#, but I mean they have nearly the same syntax, so I don't think it would matter).

[cpp]
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "I'm sad that this isn't real" << endl;
return 0;
}
[/cpp]

So is it possible to see some nice CPP tags in the future?

Lyerae · Dec 6, 2009

PHP comes built in I believe.

Samuraid · Dec 7, 2009

Lyerae said:
PHP comes built in I believe.

Correct, PHP syntax hilighting comes with PHP in the form of the highlight_string()

If we wanted to support other language syntaxes, we'd need to mod the forums and use a syntax hilighter like GeSHi

Vestras · Dec 7, 2009

Samuraid said:
If we wanted to support other language syntaxes, we'd need to mod the forums and use a syntax hilighter like GeSHi

I believe phyrex modded GeSHi to be faster (yeah, phyrex can do everything, lol) for the Jass highlighting, so why not modify it to also support other languages?

Tru_Power22 said:
they have nearly the same syntax

Syntax = no; keywords = yes

EDIT: Actually, since I also made a syntax highlighter, I have a list of C++ keywords, I guess I could contribute:

C++

Code:

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Oh, awesome, I have more

C#

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VB.NET

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I also have for Python, Perl, Delphi, CSS, and JavaScript (also some more, too lazy to list them all)
Just tell me if you want them

Xorifelse · Dec 7, 2009

Samuraid said:
Correct, PHP syntax hilighting comes with PHP in the form of the highlight_string()

If we wanted to support other language syntaxes, we'd need to mod the forums and use a syntax hilighter like GeSHi

My experience with GeSHi is that it's slow, and that it consumes a lot of power from the server. Try client side syntax highlighters, where if a syntax is relevant to the user, he could click a button in the header of the code and that it converts the text to a syntax. This is the best way to do this, in my opinion.

Or upgrade vBulletin locally, where there are 2 contents of each post. The converted one (full HTML code), and the editable (bb tags) one.

phyrex1an · Dec 7, 2009

Themis said:
My experience with GeSHi is that it's slow, and that it consumes a lot of power from the server.

This is my experience too. We used to use GeSHi for the jass tags, but switched to a hand made solution for performance reasons.

>I believe phyrex modded GeSHi to be faster (yeah, phyrex can do everything, lol) for the Jass highlighting
I "only" managed to make it 3 times faster or so (for the jass tags, probably broke a lot of other languages in the process) and that wasn't enough.

GeSHi is still installed on the server so using it for other languages is possible. The likeliness of me adding is proportional to the activity of the programming forum *hint*. Or bribe Ghan, I hear he has very flexible payment alternatives.

Vestras · Dec 7, 2009

Found this pretty fast JScript syntax highlighter the other day, seems like an alternative? http://shjs.sourceforge.net/

Romek · Dec 7, 2009

I think the problem is that we don't know if it's worth adding the C++ highlighter, rather than we don't know how to add it, or what to add.

Samuraid · Dec 7, 2009

Themis said:
Or upgrade vBulletin locally, where there are 2 contents of each post. The converted one (full HTML code), and the editable (bb tags) one.

vBulletin already has a parsed post cache, although I am not aware if it is enabled currently or not. (If it isn't it should be)

TriggerHappy · Dec 9, 2009

Why not just add something generic that only highlights certain things;

{}, if, while, do, for, strings, floats, integers

That should give at least some highlighting for most languages and is easy to implement.

You could even just make a ripoff of your Jass tags to support that.

Because honestly, this is not a programming heavy forum (aside from Jass).

Tru_Power22 · Dec 9, 2009

TriggerHappy said:
Why not just add something generic that only highlights certain things;

{}, if, while, do, for, strings, floats, integers

That should give at least some highlighting for most languages and is easy to implement.

You could even just make a ripoff of your Jass tags to support that.

Because honestly, this is not a programming heavy forum (aside from Jass).

That's not really true. There are quite a few C++ threads in the programming forum.

TriggerHappy · Dec 9, 2009

Nothing compared to the Jass threads.

UndeadDragon · Dec 10, 2009

TriggerHappy said:
Nothing compared to the Jass threads.

This.

For the amount of work that it would take to add the new tags, it would not be worth it, because of the lack of C++ threads.

Vestras · Dec 10, 2009

UndeadDragon said:
This.

For the amount of work that it would take to add the new tags, it would not be worth it, because of the lack of C++ threads.

But not having C++ syntax highlighting could just aswell be one of the things blocking TH from being more for the programming guys.

TriggerHappy · Dec 10, 2009

I highly doubt it. TheHelper is always going to be the place for blizzard game support.

The programming forum only has like what? 300 posts?

Vestras · Dec 10, 2009

triggerhappy said:
i highly doubt it. Thehelper is always going to be the place for blizzard game support.

The programming forum only has like what? 300 posts?

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Tru_Power22 · Dec 11, 2009

TriggerHappy said:
I highly doubt it. TheHelper is always going to be the place for blizzard game support.

The programming forum only has like what? 300 posts?

I'm working on a game and planning to paste the source code in the programming forum (It's pretty small). Syntax Highlighting would be nice.

tom_mai78101 · Dec 11, 2009

Here's what we can predict for the C++ Syntax Highlighting feature.

When Starcraft 2 is out, we will be seeing many threads with the Galaxy language. Since Galaxy is based on C, it is possible (if not, certainly) C/C++ syntax highlighting will be added as a new feature corresponding to the release of the game itself.

For now, I can be sure that it won't be implemented until the end of this year.

Vestras · Dec 11, 2009

tom_mai78101 said:
Here's what we can predict for the C++ Syntax Highlighting feature.

When Starcraft 2 is out, we will be seeing many threads with the Galaxy language. Since Galaxy is based on C, it is possible (if not, certainly) C/C++ syntax highlighting will be added as a new feature corresponding to the release of the game itself.

For now, I can be sure that it won't be implemented until the end of this year.

Jass was 'based' on C, too

Tru_Power22 · Dec 11, 2009

Vestras said:
Jass was 'based' on C, too

Just a very wordy version.

int add(int a, int b)

becomes

[ljass] function add takes integer a, b returns integer[/ljass]

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