Needing a little help.
by Francis · in Torque Game Engine · 09/11/2006 (11:54 am) · 4 replies
Um, actually I dont have WordPad. I'm using a Mac, but I thought this would be better suited to this forum....
I use TextEdit.... SO should I delte and remake this in the mac forum then?
I use TextEdit.... SO should I delte and remake this in the mac forum then?
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TextEdit should work okay but I would suggest moving up to something code aware like BBEdit (paid) or TextWrangler (free) from Bare Bones software. These are programs designed to edit code files which TextEdit is not. You can open multiple files at a time with them listed in a drawer (great for comparing or cross-referencing between two files) and search all of them and immediately tell which ones are saved, undos past saves etc etc.
It sounds like what you need to do in TextEdit is make sure you have a straight text version and and not a styled (aka rich) text version. You can do this by either Format > Make Plain Text orT. Otherwise the default setting for TextEdit is rich text and the suffix is rtf.
If you put certain files from the Torque folders in the right place either of these will do syntax highlighting which makes editing scripts much easier. There is a thread in the Mac area about getting both BBEdit and Xcode to recognize the torque syntax. Trust me at least do TextWrangler (did I mention it's free?) and will make your .cs editing life much easier.
HTH,
=Tod
09/11/2006 (12:22 pm)
@FrancisTextEdit should work okay but I would suggest moving up to something code aware like BBEdit (paid) or TextWrangler (free) from Bare Bones software. These are programs designed to edit code files which TextEdit is not. You can open multiple files at a time with them listed in a drawer (great for comparing or cross-referencing between two files) and search all of them and immediately tell which ones are saved, undos past saves etc etc.
It sounds like what you need to do in TextEdit is make sure you have a straight text version and and not a styled (aka rich) text version. You can do this by either Format > Make Plain Text or
If you put certain files from the Torque folders in the right place either of these will do syntax highlighting which makes editing scripts much easier. There is a thread in the Mac area about getting both BBEdit and Xcode to recognize the torque syntax. Trust me at least do TextWrangler (did I mention it's free?) and will make your .cs editing life much easier.
HTH,
=Tod
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