File Editors

[paco]

Indeed Scott! NoteTab light is quite usefull!!! MANY other features... Infact I believe it's you who "link" it to me in a past post...

[Brady Watson]

JF,
I haven't devoted the time to figuring it out with Crimson...Mainly because the ShopBot code is so simple to read and write, I just use it as is.

As long as I can do a quick replace of keywords or find the values that I need to change (Notepad takes forever to Replace) I'm happy.

-Brady

[gerald_d]

Remember that old freebie that came before PartsWizard......seem to remember the name Vector.....? Well, that has a built-in text editor, with syntax colouring, with "clip macros", all inside the CAM program. As you move your cursor through the text editor, you even have a simultaneous graphic view of where the tool is on the part. Oh well, it was a little difficult to learn, so it got chucked out.

[srwtlc]

I remember Gerald! It gets used everyday
. NoteTab Light is just for the quick in between stuff. I just didn't think it was worth mentioning because it seems to have become extinct among shoppbotters (or dare I say, a lost art). Yes, you have color, macros, toolpath preview, what more could you ask for? Maybe a way of using it easily as your default editor that would also update the toolpath drawing. As you said, oh well.

Scott

[ron brown]

VECTOR - what a program.

Not for sissies...

Ron

[jf_allie]

Here is the file that Crimson Editor uses to assign different colors to different group of keywords. Unfortunately there are only 10 groups. What do you think would be the most usefull groupings.

Also if you keywords missing let me know.

J-F
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[KEYWORDS0:GLOBAL]
# ===== Statements =====
For
Next
Goto
Gosub
Return
Pause
End
Exit Shopbot
Print
Open
Close
Write
Output As
Shell

[KEYWORDS1:GLOBAL]
# ===== Settings Category Commands =====
SA SR SP SM SK SL SO SW SC ST SF SV Warning Off

[KEYWORDS2:GLOBAL]
# ===== Conditionals =====
If
Then
On
Input

[KEYWORDS3:GLOBAL]
# ===== Specials =====


[KEYWORDS4:GLOBAL]
# ===== File Category Commands =====
FP FE FN FG FC FS

[KEYWORDS5:GLOBAL]
# ===== Move Category Commands =====
MX MY MZ M2 M3 MH MA MB M4 M5 MO M0 MS

[KEYWORDS6:GLOBAL]
# ===== Jog Category Commands =====
JX JY JZ J2 J3 JH JA JB J4 J5 JS

[KEYWORDS7:GLOBAL]
# ===== Cut Category Commands =====
CC CP CA CG CR CS

[KEYWORDS8:GLOBAL]
# ===== Zero Category Commands =====
ZX ZY ZZ ZA ZB Z2 Z3 Z4 Z5 ZT

[KEYWORDS9:GLOBAL]
# ===== Math Functions =====
ABS AND ARCCOS ARCCOSH ARCCOT ARCCOTH ARCCSC ARCCSCH
ARCTANH ARCSEC ARCSECH ARCSIN ARCSINH ATN CLG COS COT
COTH CSC CSCH EXP LOG NOT OR SINH SECH SEC SIN SQR TAN TANH

# ===== Values Category Commands =====
VC VP VV VS VR VB VA VU VD VL VI VN VH VT VE VK

# ===== Record Category Commands =====
RR RP RS RA RI RZ

# ===== Utility Category Commands =====
UN UU UL UV UR US UD UI UC

[dvanr]

Nice find Jean-François,

I know that the this post is about 1.5 years old , but this Crimson editor is free and useful. The colour syntax makes it easier to find mistakes and changing the screen colours to your own preference makes it easy to read for longer periods too.

It was bit fiddly getting it set up but worth it. If anyones interested, I can post the rest of the files and instructions.

FWiW it has macro recording as well.