How can I go about setting up Lite-C to execute in Visual Studio 8. Don't get me wrong, I love SED, I just wanted to test it out in VS8.

Has anyone really tried it properly? I am using the one to make games, not applications. So it needs to use the acknex.dll, doesn't it?

Depends on what you want to do with Visual Studio in that regard - only use the editor? Or use C++ for writing an engine plugin?

As editor.

Yes, as an editor. Like a replacement for SED.

In the free version scripts can only be started from SED. You can edit your scripts in VC++, but use SED for starting them. For this have SED running in the background, but with no file open, and give the main script file Options / Preferences / Engine.

It works nicely, although I have to summon SED to run the script. I like the tree UI in VC++ with folders containing files.

Thank you. I hope it will be supported fully in the final release.

PS: I have nothing against SED.

I have something against SED ^^

Works perfect, thanks

actually... you can launch the .c file without touching SED. All you have to do is save the file out, and then make either a batch file or tell visual studio to run acknex.exe "filename.c"

or something similar along those lines, if you want the specific instance let me know, albeit, the batch file is probably the way to go because yo uaren't really compiling anything with visual studio...

I think context might be of more use in this instance, and you can write up a custom highlighting/color pattern for the liteC language for it, etc. It won't have the nifty help shortcuts tho... (which, the help at the bottom, as far as I can tell, are all old c-script stuff...)

Cool, can you tell me exactly where to go to set it up? I get lost in the Visual Studio 2005 menus.

Thanks.

go into your project properties. And set the command to run...

C:\ProgramFiles\LiteC\acknex.exe

and the command arguments

".\yourscript.c"

this is inside the "debugging" tab on visual studio 2003, not sure on 2005, don't use it >_>