Visual Studio Code extension for GBA script syntax highlighting

Samug · Apr 24, 2020

I've quickly thrown together an extension for .inc script syntax highlighting for VS Code, as I surely can't be the only developer here to prefer it over plain text editors. I've just packaged it as a local extension you can easily install from the .vsix file. All suggestions welcome.

Features:

Language support as 'pkmnscript', for lack of a better name.
Syntax highlighting for labels, macros and strings in .inc files.
Use of @ for single-line comments (e.g. for Ctrl+/).

Screenshots:

Spoiler:

ThomasWinwood · Apr 24, 2020

I was going to do this! Now I don't have to. Nice work.

Battle scripts could do with syntax highlighting as well; I might ask around to see if it's feasible to give them a separate file extension to that end.

blakcat · Jun 20, 2020

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but seeing as the topic is VS Code, I'll give it a shot: does anyone know how to actually fix all the C++ errors in VS Code? Right now I have "error squiggles" disabled, which only half solves the problem. I mean actually fixing the errors. For example, in main_menu.c I get an error:

Code:

identifier "SHINY_ODDS" is undefined

I think it's just an import issue, but I don't really understand the codebase well enough to know what/how to import. (And it's only an issue in VS Code -- the compiler itself is perfectly happy.)

I'm using pokeemerald, btw, but my question probably applies to other decomps as well.

Hestia · Jul 6, 2020

@Black cat: Try going to view extentions c/c++ right click extension settings and try changing C_Cpp › Default: Intelli Sense Mode to something like clang-arm. Worked for me.

@everyone: Go to view extensions [...] install from VSIX to install the extension.

@Samug Thanks !

blakcat · Jul 7, 2020

Hestia said:
@Black cat: Try going to view extentions c/c++ right click extension settings and try changing C_Cpp › Default: Intelli Sense Mode to something like clang-arm. Worked for me.

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Hi, Hestia. I really appreciate the reply! Unfortunately, that did not really work for me. It does seem like there are fewer errors, though :)

For example, in src\battle_script_commands.c, the following lines still give me the error function call is not allowed in a constant expression:

Code:

static const u16 sUnknown_0831C2C8[] = INCBIN_U16("graphics/battle_interface/unk_battlebox.gbapal");
static const u32 sUnknown_0831C2E8[] = INCBIN_U32("graphics/battle_interface/unk_battlebox.4bpp.lz");

On top of that, it's still complaining about undefined vars, but at least the number of complaints has decreased significantly. I'm on Windows, btw.

Thanks again!

Hestia · Jul 8, 2020

Seems likeI misinformed you, after all, it did't work for me. It doesn't highlight any error, but that is fine since the compiler does a great job. Did you opened the whole pokeemerald dir in vscode, so that it can find the files includes and data?

blakcat · Jul 8, 2020

Hestia said:
Seems likeI misinformed you, after all, it did't work for me. It doesn't highlight any error, but that is fine since the compiler does a great job. Did you opened the whole pokeemerald dir in vscode, so that it can find the files includes and data?

Yep. It's opened at the /pokeemerald folder. I'll try reopening the workspace and see if that helps...

Edit: it didn't help. I do see info msgs telling me the IDE is searching thru includes when VS Code starts, but it still ends up with a bunch of errors :(

walkingeye · Sep 10, 2020

This is fantastic, thank you for your contribution!

Visual Studio Code extension for GBA script syntax highlighting

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