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GeckospotNixie
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Keyword Color Coding?
May 16th, 2013 at 2:52am
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First I would like to say that I find the Visual Micro plugin for Visual Studio for Arduino is outstanding.

In my job and hobby I live and die microcontrollers.
At work I'm a one man show I do all the hardware design and all the firmware that goes with that.
Also the PC GUIs and interfaces.
Most of my work has been with Miocrochip so I'm new to Arduino and Atmel.
I have used Visual Studio from VS 6.0 too today also I have used a number of C compilers with IDE interfaces.

Ok the point of this is I see in another post (“Initial Impressions”) that you stated that you would work on the keyword color coding if us the user would make request for it. 
I would like to see the keyword color coding working for Arduino and libraries.
I think that keyword color coding is extremely helpful in writing code.   Wink

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Re: Keyword Color Coding?
Reply #1 - May 16th, 2013 at 2:14pm
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Hello,

Thank you for your support, it is really great to hear that someone with so much experience finds this solution useful.

Yes I also would like to see this additional level of color coding. 

Currently the plugin is not responsible for color coding, this is handled by the Microsoft C++  system.

Personally, I do not like "third party" plugins that monitor "editing/typing" in the code editors, this is because it always seems to slow things down. I find that only Microsoft and VisualAssistX (whole tomatoe) can do this work well.

So I am looking for a very efficient way to implement this. The plugin does have all of the keyword lists ready for this task but we need to find the best solution.

A shortage of time has prevented me from delving into the VS options to see if there is a standard manual way to add our own keywords for projects. If we find there is a standard interface then the plugin should be able to use the same thing but automatically.

Does this make sense, if anyone reads this post and knows the vs C++ options very well please speak up if you know the solution

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