It seems to be different in Visual Studio 8
I can't find where I can do this.

Give me a few days, I need to download visual studio 8 express edition and I'll help you out.

-T

Thank you. I can wait

In the project preferences, click on 'build events' and then 'prebuild events'. Now enter ' C:\ProgramFiles\LiteC\acknex.exe ".\yourscript.c" ' in the first field and save.

The only annoying things is that VS builds the project after you closed the window. There doesn't seem to be a commands to terminate the build process.

As I work with the german version the names may be different.

Edit: Ok simple solution to stop the build; Just write some crap in the next line and the compiler will stop

Thank you so much. It works nicely.
Just one thing, it not that important though, I cannot pass commands like "-nx 500" to the engine. Any ideas? I already found a (messy) work around...

C:\ProgramFiles\LiteC\acknex.exe ".\yourscript.c" -nx 500

Doesn't work?

Thanks, everything is great now

Wow, works great.
For the German VC++.NET 2003 owners:

Neue Projektmappe anlegen unter Datei=>Neu=>Projekt
Dort Visual C++-Projekte anklicken, dann rechts Leeres Projekt(.NET)
Dann alle .c und .h files ins Projekt aufnehmen, z.B. rechts im Projektmappenexplorer.

Danach im Hauptfenster anklicken:
Projekt
Eigenschaften von ...
Buildereignisse
Vor dem Erstellen
Dort in der ersten Zeile eingeben C:\Programme\LiteC\acknex.exe ".\yourscript.c"
Speichern nicht vergessen.

Zum Starten einfach auf Erstellen gehen und 'yourprojectname erstellen' klicken
Dann sollte LiteC auch ohne SED anspringen

In visual studio 8 you can call external tools which will build lite-c.

1.) Create a batch file containing the command C:\ProgramFiles\LiteC\acknex.exe %1

2.) In visual studio Select Tools | External Tools and click Add. Enter a title, browse to the batch file you created for the command and add $(ProjectDir)main.c as the arguments (where main.c is your code)

When you select tools your new tool should be in the list. This can then be mapped to a button.

You can also add color coding for lite-c commands in visual studio 8.

1.) In the directory c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE create a file called usertype.dat

2.) Open this file in notepad and add commands you would like color coded eg

vec_set
ENTITY
VECTOR
etc.

Restart visual studio and they should be color coded and vs will now recognise VECTORS and ENTITY names with intelisence.