topic Re: Syntax Colouring in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Syntax Colouring

Intel_C_Intel — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:50:47 GMT

I have a couple of questions about syntax colouring in the DevStudio text editor:

1) Why, if I set,

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftDevStudio6.0Text EditorTabs/Language SettingsFortran

to

f90;f;for;fi;fd;fpp;str;cmn;prm;inc

are *.str etc. files not considered by the IDE to be FORTRAN and coloured appropriately? (If I manually apply a language setting, it is only applied until the file is closed).

2) Why does user defined keyword highlighting through usertype.dat (as described in the docs) not work with FORTRAN?

Dan

Re: Syntax Colouring

Steven_L_Intel1 — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:07:22 GMT

Because Developer Studio ignores that registry setting in this context. There isn't a way around it that I know of.

Steve

Re: Syntax Colouring

Intel_C_Intel — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:47:32 GMT

(I don't know why this didn't come through as a reply the first time)

Steve - thanks for the response, don't you ever sleep??? :o)

I don't want to sound too pedantic but, if the registry settings are ignored, what are they there for? I can't think of another context where this setting would be useful...

It is only a minor (though continual!) irritation, but is it worth reporting as a 'feature'?

Re: Syntax Colouring

Steven_L_Intel1 — Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:45:14 GMT

In CVF, a lot of the logic that determines "what is a Fortran file" is locked inside Microsoft code that we don't have access to. The situation is probably different in the VS.NET IDE, but I don't know offhand.

The registry value is used for some things, but not in whether or not the Fortran colorizer is called.

Steve