Greetings.

First off, it is nice to see a scripting guide. I have a spreadsheet from last year, so a pdf is great to see standardization. I might make some suggestions after a quick take on it.

Get rid of the small 'pages' and the nice picture on top. For example, in the guide the definition of Expressions contains a very small area with much gray. I for one would rather not see the pretty format and see more data with less scrolling. Especially when opening a .pdf next to notepad.

Also, and I have brought this up in conversations over the phone, what this really needs is a scripting environment, IDE type thing. Scite is a great free one, which only requires certain key files in place to become IDI supportive. At least something which gives color characteristics to each 'type' of keyword.

While pdf's are nice to maintain standardization, I really like DOM's better (Document Object Models). Many are .chm's, and many MS ones are laid out poorly, but still offer better resolution than a pdf. At the least include an index on the side to facilitate navigation.

Good work and this is a great start.

MrWoo

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah those new PDFs are super helpful in understanding IDI functionality and configuration.
I have to check out Scite now. From what you described I think it would work perfectly with IDI macros.

I'm using OPML as an IDI editor, has this nice outlining layout that lets you collapse your code in a clean way... The guy who wrote it is a real character, highly respected technologist, I think he came up with RSS.
Anyway, I would like auto fill in for function arguments, etc. Can Scite be set up fairly easily to do that? If so, sounds great.

Yes Scite can be edited. It is basically Scintilla, which can be used as an editor for many program languages. They have keyword files and lexers among other things.

Adding all the necessary features does take some time to do, as obviously everything must be typed in. It does have folding capability. The nice thing about it is that not only is it free and pretty well documented/supported, but when your program language is complete, it is soooo fast. You start typeing a function, and up pops the closest match, complete in AutoIt's case with an example and syntax. I have used many such apps, and this one is by far my favorite.

I have not used OPML. I will take a look and see what it is about.

MrWoo