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bluejay
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differentiating comments by color
« on: Aug 8th, 2004, 7:53am » |
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Didn't see this suggested anywhere else in the forum, so word up.
I'm making my own additions to the code of an example sketch. As I add commenting to the sketch, I'd like to be able to visually differentiate my comments from the original programmer's comments. Preferably in a way that's more striking and less cumbersome than typing //ME: after every comment I make. For example, it'd be wonderful if I could make all of my own commenting show up BLUE instead of the usual mustard yellow.
It'd be *ideal* if the next release of P5 let users specify the colors of comments, either from a menu in the software or from within the code itself. There could be a short list of arbitrary comment colors, called up by adding a small modifier beside the //. Like, // = standard color, //(1) = red. Or if you wanted to get really fancy, you could include support for RGB values: //(255, 204, 0) = yellow commenting.
Processing already reads the sketch to color comments differently from functions, etc. Adding 1 or 2 extra types of comment tag for it to read should be easy. RGB values for comments is excessive, but having a way to change the basic commenting color and specify additional comment colors for a sketch would be useful + sanity-friendly.
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