how difficult to tweak for new language

[Stephen Nell]

I want to use Eclipse to edit various dialects of Business Basic.  I thought I might be able to just copy the vbasic.hrc file, tweak it a little and then use the resulting 'mybbxlang.hrc'

but it is not clear how to map the file extension ( in my case .src ) to the .hrc file...   any help?

thanks
Steve

[jonib]

Check this link http://colorer.sourceforge.net/hrc-ref/index.html#basics.filetypes
Specifically "2.1.1. Prototypes"

jonib

[Stephen Nell]

thanks jonib for the ultra quick response

that was the info I needed - it works nicely

now I am left wondering where to set the color preferences... for instance, I am accustomed to having my comments set to green...  are these color definitions left to eclipse or are they part of ColorerLibrary?

thanks
Steve

[jonib]

For color info look here: http://colorer.sourceforge.net/hrc-ref/index.html#hrd
And the color files should be in directory "Colorer\hrd" specifically "Colorer\hrd\rgb" for Eclipse.
You can add a custom color style or edit one of the defaults, you choose which you use in Colorer's settings within Eclipse.

jonib

[Stephen Nell]

thanks again jonib - that also did the trick