Islington - A curly bracket precompiler fro PB4+
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:32 pm
Islington is a precompiler I've written for PB4+ that's designing to turn boring old PB (:P) into a curly bracket language more like C/Java/etc.
Take an 'If' statement, for example in PB4 it looks like this (as if you guys don't know
):
With Islington this becomes:
It's pretty much the same for all other conditions/statements. The opening statement stays the same, except a '{' is expected at the end of the line, or on the line directly after and the closing statement becomes a '}' (which can be the final character on another line).
Islington also introduces a slightly different syntax for procedures as well:
...is the same as:
All procedure types are supported in this fashion (using "float", "string", "double" ,"quad", "character","byte", "word" - I'm sure you can figure out how they work!).
I'm not sure of any automatic way to set up tools, but just download Islington.exe, fire up PB then:
Tools > Configure Tools > New
Commandline = Full Islington.exe path
Arguments = "%COMPILEFILE"
Event to trigger tool = Before Compile/Run
Wait untill tool quits = Ticked
Download!
Take an 'If' statement, for example in PB4 it looks like this (as if you guys don't know
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;PB4
If a=b
Debug 1
Elseif a>b
Debug 2
Else
Debug 3
Endif
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;PB4 w/Islington
If a=b
{
Debug 1
}
Elseif a>b
{
Debug 2
}
Else{ ;This format is also valid
Debug 3}
Islington also introduces a slightly different syntax for procedures as well:
Code: Select all
long Main(Arg.l)
{
}
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Procedure.l Main(Arg.l)
EndProcedure
I'm not sure of any automatic way to set up tools, but just download Islington.exe, fire up PB then:
Tools > Configure Tools > New
Commandline = Full Islington.exe path
Arguments = "%COMPILEFILE"
Event to trigger tool = Before Compile/Run
Wait untill tool quits = Ticked
Download!