User Defined Language for Notepad++ or Similar

Hi StoopidEngineer,

a lot of people are using ultraedit. I think there are a couple of "highlighters" available.

Or you can use vs code or vs codium . Plugins are available.

But don't expect too much. Fanuc's TP is not very TXT-file-friendly:

   1:  R[50:tmpOVR]=$MCR.$GENOVERRIDE ;
   2:  R[AR[2]]=AR[1]/R[50:tmpOVR]*100;  

- Comments may or may not be shown inside the ls file

- Indirect arguments

- line numbers...

...

best regards

PnsStarter

Hi

I tried a couple of times to write a TP program offline, actually a LS program and I always had an issue with this part items.

PROG_SIZE =xxx; and MEMORY_SIZE = xxx;

/PROG PLACE

/ATTR

OWNER = MNEDITOR;

COMMENT = "";

PROG_SIZE = 664;

CREATE = DATE 21-04-07 TIME 04:01:16;

MODIFIED = DATE 21-04-07 TIME 04:01:16;

FILE_NAME = PLACE_ST;

VERSION = 0;

LINE_COUNT = 27;

MEMORY_SIZE = 928;

PROTECT = READ_WRITE;

TCD: STACK_SIZE = 0,

TASK_PRIORITY = 50,

TIME_SLICE = 0,

BUSY_LAMP_OFF = 0,

ABORT_REQUEST = 0,

PAUSE_REQUEST = 0;

DEFAULT_GROUP = 1,*,*,*,*;

CONTROL_CODE = 00000000 00000000;

/APPL

/APPL

/MN

1: !******************************** ;

2: !Place ;

3: !******************************** ;

4: ;

5: UFRAME_NUM=1 ;

6: UTOOL_NUM=1 ;

7: ;

Yeah... I always cheated by creating a TP program on the robot, exporting it to ASCII, then making my offline edits in a text editor. That gave me a known-good "skeleton" for all those finicky formatting bits.

You can change the /PROG line, as long as it matches the file name. I've spawned new programs from "scratch" that way, using an simple .LS file as a starter template. I've never had to bother with the Size settings, the robot seems to import the .LS file regardless. Ditto for Create, Modify, Line Count.

The only line I've really tampered with is the Busy Lamp one.

The doubled /APP lines can be reduced to a single one with no issues, in my experience.

When I started programming for my robot, I stumbled upon a neat online notepad that's super handy for jotting down code snippets and ideas. For offline work though, I found Notepad++ to be a gem. It's customizable and has a user-defined language feature that could fit your needs perfectly. I remember setting up my own syntax highlighting for robot commands—it made debugging a breeze.