A new TESH Syntax Highlighter for Warcraft 3

[looking_for_help]

That worked actually faster than expected... some boundary check managed to slip through and caused the crash. Should be fixed now.

Update to version 0.9.2

• Fixed a lexer bug that could crash the editor
• Fixed width of whitespace with fonts and font sizes
• Fixed error on loading files from path with non-ASCII characters
• Removed external interface (was unused anyway)

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Good thing I could help with that map. Now @MindWorX only needs to update WEX to the newest TESH.

 

[psxlover]

You can just replace tesh, no need to wait for a new WEX version.

 

[Spellbound]

The TESH folder in WEX is found in:

profiles > Warcraft III - World Editor (WEX) > plugins [tesh is in here]

Information courtesy of MindWorX.

 

[psxlover]

Update to version 0.9.2

• Fixed error on loading files from path with non-ASCII characters

It doesn't throw errors any more, but it is as if tesh does not load at all when running from inside a folder with greek characters.

 

[looking_for_help]

It doesn't throw errors any more, but it is as if tesh does not load at all when running from inside a folder with greek characters.

Hm ok, I only tried loading files (like style.txt) from paths containing greek characters. I didn't try putting the whole tesh into a folder with greek characters.

I will take a look soon at this, thanks for the report.

 

[psxlover]

Thanks for you time

 

[MindWorX]

Is this open again?

 

[looking_for_help]

New version available that accounts for the new patches and WEX versions.


Update to version 0.9.3

• Added all new natives of patch 1.29 to the keywords database.
• Trigger editor name no longer restricted to "Trigger Editor" but all international names are supported now automatically.
  
• Now opens correctly when placed in paths containing non-ASCII characters (took a bit).

 

[moyackx]

Tons of love for you

 

[looking_for_help]

Thanks also @MindWorX for providing the list with international trigger editor names.

Would be nice if people who have a native version of Wc3 or the trigger editor with one of the languages listed below could confirm that the new TESH is working with the native title.

I will then update the list to ensure that it is working with all languages correctly.

Language	Trigger Editor Name	Tested
English	Trigger Editor	Yes
German	Auslöser-Editor	Yes
Spanish	Editor de detonadores	No
French	Editeur de déclencheur	No
Italian	Editor di trigger	No
Korean	트리거 에디터	No
Polish	Edytor wyzwalaczy	No
Russian	Редактор триггеров	No
Chinese (simplified)	触发事件编辑器	No
Chinese (TW)	觸發編輯器	No

 

[CHA_Owner]

New version available that accounts for the new patches and WEX versions.


Update to version 0.9.3

• Added all new natives of patch 1.29 to the keywords database.
• Trigger editor name no longer restricted to "Trigger Editor" but all international names are supported now automatically.
  
• Now opens correctly when placed in paths containing non-ASCII characters (took a bit).

awesome man thanks for the good work and btw i think you missed one



its the TriggerRegisterPlayerMouseEventBJ
and TriggerRegisterPlayerMouseEvent

EDIT*

btw its working for the english version

EDIT**

also missing the EVENTs for those calls



annnndddddd here it still says "this is version 0.9.3" lol a little picky on that one but my OCD got me.

 

[looking_for_help]

awesome man thanks for the good work and btw i think you missed one


its the TriggerRegisterPlayerMouseEventBJ
and TriggerRegisterPlayerMouseEvent

EDIT**

also missing the EVENTs for those calls

Hm, seems like I missed those. I took the list of new natives from this post, but apparently not all new keywords (natives, events, etc.) are listed there. Is there somewhere a full list of all new keywords for patch 1.29? I will add the missing keywords then.

Btw: They still implement BJ-Versions? Does anyone know why?

EDIT*

btw its working for the english version

Thanks for the feedback, I will update the list accordingly. Any other feedback about the remaining languages is appreciated.

annnndddddd here it still says "this is version 0.9.3" lol a little picky on that one but my OCD got me.

Hm, that should be ok, since the latest version is 0.9.3... or do you mean something different?

 

[CHA_Owner]

Um nvm on the version i just misunderstood but all of the events and bjs are in the mpq files i just pulled then out with war3 model editor

Again thanks for updating tesh man

EDIT*

i attached it to the post for you

 

[ZiBitheWand3r3r]

Few new "Blz" natives comes with "takes" together with native name.

Spoiler: show

BlzGetAbilityCooldowntakes
BlzGetAbilityExtendedTooltiptakes
BlzGetAbilityManaCosttakes
BlzGetAbilityResearchTooltiptakes
BlzGetItemDescriptiontakes
BlzIsUnitInvulnerabletakes
BlzSetAbilityExtendedTooltiptakes
BlzSetAbilityResearchTooltiptakes
BlzSetItemDescriptiontakes
BlzSetSpecialEffectTimeScaletakes
BlzUnitDisableAbilitytakes

 

[looking_for_help]

Um nvm on the version i just misunderstood but all of the events and bjs are in the mpq files i just pulled then out with war3 model editor

Again thanks for updating tesh man

EDIT*

i attached it to the post for you

Thanks, I will go through the list and add all missing items.

Few new "Blz" natives comes with "takes" together with native name.

Thanks, seems like there went something wrong with these keywords...

 

[Dalharukn]

I confirm, didn't work on spanish on default.

If you want make it work, u have to edit trigger_editor_name.ini and change the name of default value.

 

[GhostWolf]

I don't remember much about Win32, but can you not find the window class and select based on that, regardless of the language?

 

[looking_for_help]

I confirm, didn't work on spanish on default.

If you want make it work, u have to edit trigger_editor_name.ini and change the name of default value.

That is strange... can you please upload the "trigger_editor_name.ini" file which worked for you?

I don't remember much about Win32, but can you not find the window class and select based on that, regardless of the language?

Unfortunatly not since the class is not unique. For example, the trigger editor window has class #32770, which is used for many other WE windows, like object editor, sound editor and others.

 

[Hate]

can you add { and } to work as ( and )?

and ! as operator

 

[looking_for_help]

can you add { and } to work as ( and )?

and ! as operator

Will consider this request for the next update.

 

[Hate]

Will consider this request for the next update.

that would be really helpful for me

when next update will come?

 

[Stormswind]

Hi, tesh is not currently working with russian editor. Редактор триггеров is not helping in trigger_editor_name. That's why i should install eng version of warcraft 3

 

[Prometheus3375]

Hello, I found a bug in TESH.

I selected text, checked "Selected Test Only" and pressed "Replace All".

Spoiler: Before replacing

And then I got this.

Spoiler: After replacing

For some reason textmacro name and contents were changed, but they were not selected!

Spoiler: Code from screenshot

    static method getUpgradeData takes integer id returns integer
        local string name = GetObjectName(id)
        if SubString(name, UpgradeCodeStart, UpgradeCodeEnd) == UpgradeCode then
            set UpgradeId = S2I(SubString(name, UpgradeIdStart, UpgradeIdEnd))
            set UpgradeName = SubString(name, UpgradeNameStart, StringLength(name))
            return S2I(SubString(name, UpgradeTypeStart, UpgradeTypeEnd))
        endif
        return 0
    endmethod
endstruct

//! textmacro HeroAbilityPlayerData
struct HeroAbilityPlayerData
    boolean array upgrade[HeroAbilityUpgradesAmount]
 
    method operator [] takes integer i returns boolean
        return upgrade[i]
    endmethod
endstruct
//! endtextmacro

 

[Prometheus3375]

Here I found another issue.

Spoiler: Screenshot

As I understood, TESH works bad with backslash (\). Everything began to display fine after I had removed first 2 strings of function.

 

[yi5752]

How to use it in the world editor 1.30

 

[Chaosy]

You can't

 

[actboy168]

Hi, thank you for the open source new tesh code. But it is missing the image in the Pictures directory. Can you provide them? Thanks.

 

[Prometheus3375]

Does option 'Regular expression' work? if yes, how to use it?

 

[looking_for_help]

Hi everyone. First of all thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late response. Some clarification:

when next update will come?

Hi, tesh is not currently working with russian editor.

Hello, I found a bug in TESH.

Here I found another issue.

How to use it in the world editor 1.30

Thanks for pointing out these issues. There is a reason why I have not released any new updates yet.

Some months ago MindWorX told me that they plan to integrate TESH directly into the WE (of course I asked MindWorX for permission to post this info).

Therefore, I am currently not working on TESH, because if it will be integrated anyway into the WE, doing so would most likely result in double work and waste of time.

Does option 'Regular expression' work? if yes, how to use it?

I think it should work, since it uses the standard Scintialla regex options. Maybe the Scintilla/Scite documentation on regex does help?

 

[psxlover]

Good to hear. Working on triggers seems almost impossible to me without TESH. Even the font used by the default editor seems awful.

I get it that you don't want to bother having to update with each version, since there is a plan to integrate it, but if it is going to be integrated the same way that jasshelper was, you can at least keep improving the code.

 

[Wrda]

Good to hear. Working on triggers seems almost impossible to me without TESH. Even the font used by the default editor seems awful.

If you don't know the most important functions you need for something of course it's hard, but surely not impossible. It just forces you to think a bit and try to memorize them. Not having OOP doesn't mean it's awful, just like the font it's not that bad. What annoys me is people like you who aren't capable of adapting to the situations that aren't that good when before you had something that improved your life. Just shows 0 flexibility. Just because TESH is a great thing doesn't mean you can treat WE trigger editor like trash...nor you should be limited to TESH when coding, you should be prepared if you can't use it for a while.

 

[psxlover]

If you don't know the most important functions you need for something of course it's hard, but surely not impossible. It just forces you to think a bit and try to memorize them. Not having OOP doesn't mean it's awful, just like the font it's not that bad. What annoys me is people like you who aren't capable of adapting to the situations that aren't that good when before you had something that improved your life. Just shows 0 flexibility. Just because TESH is a great thing doesn't mean you can treat WE trigger editor like trash...nor you should be limited to TESH when coding, you should be prepared if you can't use it for a while.

I'm sorry, but it is trash. Even notepad allows you to change font. The default editor does absolutely nothing other than letting you type letters. And the "shortcuts" it has are awful. No ctrl+f to search, you have to manually go through the menus in order to search. And ctrl+z does not interact with the editor, you can easily remove actions or even whole triggers if you press ctrl+z while working on a custom trigger.
Any editor that is worse than a notepad is unacceptable.
And just because I'm forced to use another editor, doesn't mean I should be happy about it.

 

[Prometheus3375]

I think it should work, since it uses the standard Scintialla regex options. Maybe the Scintilla/Scite documentation on regex does help?

Hm, maybe it was a mistake in usage that time or bug in TESH. If I come across again that issue, I will report.

By now, I know one bad thing while using JNGP: if Colorizer is enbaled (Grimoire\Enable Colorizer), drag&drop stops working in TESH.

 

[Amigoltu]

Some months ago MindWorX told me that they plan to integrate TESH directly into the WE <...>

That's awesome man. Though it's been some time since any updates were out. Wonder when are they going to come.

It just forces you to think a bit and try to memorize them.

Memorize the functions? Do you even know how many functions WC3 WE has, especially with the newest patches? Yeah, I would like to see how YOU memorized them, mate.

I can sort of agree, that a different font is not necessary, but a function list? It is.

 

[Wrda]

Memorize the functions? Do you even know how many functions WC3 WE has, especially with the newest patches? Yeah, I would like to see how YOU memorized them, mate.

Don't be stupid, no one would memorize all functions, that would be just pathetic. What I meant was about memorizing the basic functions, that you use the most.
My whole point was that TESH was great and useful, but it stopped working on newer patches because of reasons we already know, so we should adapt to the situation we are in and get used to it while we hope we will get TESH again, not to blatantly cry about like a spoiled kid.
They take quite a while for a patch update, but it's been ages since the last one I hope they didn't forget about us lol.

 

[Chaosy]

If you looooove your auto complete and whatnot downgrade your patch to use JNGP/WEX or use wurst as it is the only current language with a proper text editor.

 

[Rigborn]

Or just use notepad++
JASS in Notepad++

 

[Chaosy]

Oh right. Should have said native text editor xD
Or whatever it is called when you do not have to manually copy code into the editor.

 

[Rigborn]

Well I prefer notepadd++ because of its simplicity and some features like being able to customize your text, color, syntax and even define a language. Also it just takes 1 second to copy paste a text. You dont even have to save a thing. It just does it every 10 seconds.

 

[Bribe]

Or just use notepad++
JASS in Notepad++

It's the tits. I have used it for every JASS project I've made in the last 7 years.

For Function Lists I keep a copy of common.j and blizzard.j open on separate tabs within the program. Switching is incredibly painless.

 

[Chaosy]

Mhm, but it gets annoying after copying 50 times in an hour.
Great that people like it, but it is not for me x)

 

[Rigborn]

It's the tits. I have used it for every JASS project I've made in the last 7 years.

For Function Lists I keep a copy of common.j and blizzard.j open on separate tabs within the program. Switching is incredibly painless.

Also autocomplete makes it easier. Sometimes you don't even have to switch.

 

[TriggerHappy]

thread re opened

 

[looking_for_help]

TESH now works with the latest patch (Version 1.32.9) of Warcraft 3.


Update to version 0.9.5

• Ported the old TESH to 64 bit so that it works with the latest Version 1.32.9 of Warcraft 3.
• Added a loading mechanism so that TESH does not rely anymore on other tools like JNGP or SharpCraft, which are not supported anymore.

For more information and installation, refer to the revised A new TESH Syntax Highlighter for Warcraft 3 main post.

 

[Prometheus3375]

Can someone share the dark theme presented in the post?

 

[AGD]

Seems like not all the new keywords are added to tesh database yet, such as those that work with object editor data. Also I think it is better if it reads common.j, blizzard.j, etc. at startup (if present) so that anyone can update them if needed.

Optionally, you can set this exe as default program for Wc3 maps so that you can open them directly via double-click with TESH. In Windows 10: Click the Windows Start button->Apps->Default Apps->Choose default apps by file type. In this list, search for the .w3m file extension and set the
WorldEditorTESH.[COLOR=color: #666666]exe[/COLOR]
as default application.

After this, you can directly start Wc3 maps in the Refored World Editor with TESH via double-click.

Is it possible to make this work with patch 1.31?

 

[looking_for_help]

Can someone share the dark theme presented in the post?

Here you go.

Seems like not all the new keywords are added to tesh database yet, such as those that work with object editor data.

True, I will add them with the next update to the database.

Also I think it is better if it reads common.j, blizzard.j, etc. at startup (if present) so that anyone can update them if needed.

I prefer the current solution because it is much more efficient and so startup is quicker. In principle, it is already possible to extend the keywords because the tesh_keywords.db is just a standard SQLite database, which can be modified by everyone.

It is also possible to put functions in the includes/includes.txt file in the meantime, which are then added as user includes. These are essentially treated like normal functions, so they will have syntax highlighting, autocompletion, calltips and are also listed in the function list, in the section "User includes". The style of user includes can also be customized in the options dialog.

Is it possible to make this work with patch 1.31?

You mean the direct start via double-click? This should be possible with basically all versions of Wc3 (also without TESH), using command line arguments -launch -loadfile "%1". The new TESH only needs "%1", it generates the rest automatically.

 

[AGD]

You mean the direct start via double-click? This should be possible with basically all versions of Wc3 (also without TESH), using command line arguments
-launch -loadfile "%1"
. The new TESH only needs
"%1"
, it generates the rest automatically.

It works now, just found out it's a problem with my registry =).

 

[Prometheus3375]

Made several screenshots of different styles. They do not have gray "bars" of editor (as screenshots in the main post), because WE is running on Win10 with Win7 compatibility.
@looking_for_help, you may add them to the main post.

Default with HEX underlined

Dark

Mine

For making them I was using this template.
I also attached my styles.