Visual Basic fold/unfold does not work properly

assss1 · Oct 20, 2006#12006-10-20T12:32+00:00

Dear Sir/Madam,

My wordfile.txt is this:

/L1"Test" Test_LANG File Extensions = x
/Open Fold Strings = "$if"
/Close Fold Strings = "$fi"

/L2"Visual Basic"...

fold/unfold DOES NOT work with this code:

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$if $data_synonym == ""
    $let $d1row = "echo "<TD><INPUT NAME=\"PAR$counter\""
$fi
$let $dbstemp = "0"
$if $db_where_func == "="  $len 1,1
    $let $dbstemp = "1"
$fi

fold/unfold DOES work with this code (" before echo deleted):

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$if $data_synonym == ""
    $let $d1row = echo "<TD><INPUT NAME=\"PAR$counter\""
$fi
$let $dbstemp = "0"
$if $db_where_func == "="  $len 1,1
    $let $dbstemp = "1"
$fi

What I am missing in configuration ?

Mofi · Oct 20, 2006#22006-10-20T13:40+00:00

I'm not a Visual Basic programmer, but I think VB supports multi-line strings and so the UltraEdit syntax highlighting has enabled the multiline string highlighting feature by default for Visual Basic.

In your first code snippet the line with echo contains 3 unescaped double quotes. So this odd number of double quotes will activate the multi-line string feature and the next 2 lines are part of a string. Fold/unfold strings are ignored inside a string.

If you don't use multi-line strings and also the echo line in your first code snippet is really a valid VB line which I can't judge, you can insert the keyword DisableMLS at the line starting with /L2"Visual Basic" for example before File Extensions =. Then multi-line string highlighting is disabled and fold/unfold should work also on first code snippet.

assss1 · Oct 20, 2006#32006-10-20T14:04+00:00

Mofi, Thank You very much !!!

I added "DisableMLS" to wordfile.txt:

/L1"Test" Test_LANG DisableMLS File Extensions = x
/Open Fold Strings = "$if"
/Close Fold Strings = "$fi"

Now fold/unfold is working OK.

This language IS NOT Visual Basic but our proprietary language.

Greetings from Finland !