Original Basic+ Editor

Michael · May 16

I know this may seem like insanity and possibly heresy; but does anyone know how to possibly run or install something similar to the original OI System Editor (with no bells or whistles) in OI10.x? I'm an old-school geezer and really prefer the simplicity of the original.

Thanks in advance!

Michael

DonBakke · May 16

Not possible. The original System Editor (which does have utility I'll admit) is its own C++ compiled binary. Revelation very openly noted that this tool will not be migrated to work with OI 10. Your only options are the code editor that is integrated with the new IDE or the SRP Editor. There are, perhaps, other 3rd party editors, but I'm not aware of them.

AusMarkB · May 18

SRP Editor

DonBakke · May 19

Mark - Thank you very much for the endorsement. This developer already has access to the SRP Editor. So it isn't the features he wants, but the stripped down model that just gets up and go. Admittedly, I take the original System Editor for a quick spin myself at times...but only on rare occasions where it fits the bill just right. When I want to be productive, then of course the SRP Editor is the right tool for the job.

Michael · May 19

Ok, next weird question. If I'm using the SRP editor (which is a lot closer to the original than the IDE editor), is there a quick way to make all the text black-on-white? I'm one of the old geezers that finds the colors distracting. Or do I need to go through each element in the Editor Options and change?

KevinFournier · May 19

Quick way? No. But you can set all the styles to the same color to get the affect. Then it's saved on that machine across all copies of the SRP Editor.

Michael · May 19

So I went through and changed almost all the options under Style to black-on-white. For the most part it works great, except for delimiters (@fm/@vm/@rm, etc.) Now the text for those delimiters (@fm) doesn't show at all. And if I change the color to something else (red-on-white, or whatever), nothing changes.

Close but yet so far.

Opto_Will · May 20

@Michael, are you running the latest Editor version (3.4.10.0)? It was only a recent release (last six months or so I think) that delimiters could get their own colors.

While I am not running it in OI 10, I can confirm that in OI9 I have successfully changed my delimiter colors in my Theme (Platic Code Wrap is striking my fancy at the moment)

Edit. I looked up the change log. It was version 3.4.6. from December that introduced custom delimiter colors.

BarryStevens · May 20

successfully changed my delimiter colors in my Theme 'Plastic Code Wrap'

can confirm for OI10

Michael · May 21

I changed the theme to Plastic Code Wrap. Tried to change the colors to black-on-white. Same result: the text disappears

KevinFournier · May 21

I've attached a TXT file that is a dump of an OI record. Save it's contents into SYSENV, and make the key SRP_EDITOR_THEME*BLACKONWHITE. You should have the Black on White theme available in the Options now.

Michael · May 21

Thank you sir!

Michael · May 21

I ran the play. Black On White is available from Themes. But when selected it doesn't change anything in the editor. And the delimiter text that I changed to Black on White still disappears.

What have I missed?

KevinFournier · May 21

I'm not sure, but I'll tell you what I did to make it work. I just made sure to set the Foreground for each delimiter to White (not default) and the background to black (not default).

Michael · May 21

That's what I did before, but the @FM, @RM, etc. just get disappeared.

Opto_Will · May 22

I just tried importing MonoBlack.
I changed my Defaults first since I normally run Dark.
I had to manually set the delimiters as Kevin noted.

I then flipped my defaults back , as well as the delimiter settings to get White on Black.
That worked too.

Original Basic+ Editor

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