Talk:Hamster Whisper

Bob the Hamster: If you have problems with Hamster Whisper, you can post them here. Any error messages get added to the end of C:\Program Files\Hamster Whisper\hwhisper.exe.log so be sure to look there for hints as to what is wrong.

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Extra customization?

Kizul: Um, we WILL be able to change the font size in the future, right? ^^' It's just that I'm running on 1024×768, and the text is HUGE on my monitor. xD

Also, can you add the foreground/background color choices to it×, as well as the Block options from RemotePad××? :D

×I like having red text on a black background.

××Sort, Uppercase, Lowercase, Invert Lines, Invert Chars, Strip Blanks, Strip Breaks, Indent and Unindent — though if possible, have an option to choose whether Indent/Unindent adds/takes away 1 tab instead of 1 space.

(also, I would've used an asterisk instead of the multiplication sign, but MediaWiki was interpreting the *s at the start of a line as an unordered list item. Sorry for any confusion. :P)

Bob the Hamster: Yeah, I love my gigantic fonts :) the font and color customization is going to happen soon, and all of those nifty block commands are certainly re-implementable (actually should probably be a lot easier to re-write them in python than it was to write them in delphi)

Kizul: Hurray! :D I look forward to the next release of HW. For now, I'll just stick to HSSED — no offense to you or Hamster Whisper, I just like being able to read what I'm scripting without having to sit across the room. :p

Bob the Hamster: font and color customization is implemented now.

Kizul: Awesomeness! It works really well! :D

One last feature request from me — any chance of a tab bar? My HTML editor has a tab bar thing, and I just find it really handy to have multiple documents open in one window. :)

Edit: Hrm, and in addition: how about a black background for the context help frame instead of white? I just noticed that yellow on white is really hard to read. x.O

Edit2: not to mention the scancodes listed in the Key Is Pressed command's help — all of them are on one line. D:

Bob the Hamster: Regarding tabs, yes, that would be cool, but all my code currently expects just one text buffer. I will have to evaluate how hard it will be to add others.

Regarding the help console, it does have a black background! Maybe something on your system is preventing the background color from being set? Can I see a screenshot? Is there anything in you C:\Program Files\Hamster Whisper\hwhisper.exe.log file?

Regarding the scancodes, it looks like those use a <li> tag that I didn't know I needed to support. I'll see what I can do.

Kizul: Well, this is what it looks like: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3794/70019952cn5.png

I noticed after looking at the screenshot of Hamster Whisper that it's black, but even after I installed the thing non-sandboxed (<3 Sandboxie) it's still white. :/

hwhisper.exe.log doesn't even exist. o.O I even manually created it, and it doesn't have anything in it. ¯\(º_O)/¯ I 'unno what's wrong — I'm running Windows XP SP3 over here on a 2.80GHz dual-core DELL.

Bob the Hamster: I am a big dope. When I was implementing the color-customization of the edit window, i also cleaned up the color-code for the console, and in doing so I wrote "black" where I should have written "white" and "white" where I should have written "black", and for some crazy dumb reason i never noticed it in all my testing after that point :P re-download and try again.

Kizul: Works for me now! :D Thanks, Bob! :) It looks a lot better (especially after installing Fixedsys TTF 5.0). ^^

New user: uuuh sorry that I missed on something out here, but how do I install this on Linux/ubuntu???? I can't open the .exe with wine. thanks

Bob the Hamster (talk): I never made a Linux package for it, but I always just run it from the source on my Linux box.

svn co svn://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/tools/hwhisper

And I think all the dependencies you will need are:

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-gtksourceview2

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Syntax coloring?

Any chance we'll see some syntax highlighting (i.e. making comments italic, bolding reserved words) in a future update? --Ichiro 11:21, 19 March 2010 (PDT)

Yes, possibly, although I don't have any specific plans yet. plotscripting is tricky to syntax highlight because it has whitespace rules which are insane compared to every other language I know of. Bob the Hamster 13:15, 19 March 2010 (PDT)

I have been reading up on the language definitions for gtksourceview. Apparently I can use gtksourceview as a drop-in replacement for HamsterWhisper's current gtk.TextView, and the language definition scheme seems sufficiently flexible to deal with all of plotscripting's various crazyness. Bob the Hamster 15:22, 19 March 2010 (PDT)