How to install Scintilla and SciTE

[Ravi]

Hi,

Could anybody help me out to install Scintill and SciTE.

I downloaded both the ZIP files for my windows XP machine but when I
went through the help files, it hardly has any information on how to
install it. It has come commands to run but from where and all are not
clear to me.

I wanted to run (and not just edit) VBScript (not with HTML tags and
all but just the scripting) on these (free) tools and that's my
objective behind downloading these.

I tried notepad++ and textpad also but don't know how to actually RUN
the script over there.

Will Scintilla serve my purpose.

Please help me out on this.

Regards,
Ravi

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 18/03/2010 08:38, Ravi wrote:
> Could anybody help me out to install Scintill and SciTE.

This belongs more to the SciTE mailing list...

> I downloaded both the ZIP files for my windows XP machine but when I
> went through the help files, it hardly has any information on how to
> install it. It has come commands to run but from where and all are not
> clear to me.

You don't have to install it, just unzip the files and it works!
If you want even more simplicity, download the Sc1 file, it is a all-in-one executable.
After putting the files in some place, you might want to put a shortcut in your Start
menu, create some associations with files and so on. I will suppose you know how to do that.

> I wanted to run (and not just edit) VBScript (not with HTML tags and
> all but just the scripting) on these (free) tools and that's my
> objective behind downloading these.

You have to look in vb.properties. There, you have the lines:

command.go.$(file.patterns.wscript)="$(FilePath)"
command.go.subsystem.$(file.patterns.wscript)=2

So, if you hit F5 with your script in SCiTE, it should run the script using the default
Windows mechanism (like when you type foo.vbs on the command prompt).
You can change it to:

command.go.$(file.patterns.wscript)=cscript.exe "$(FileNameExt)"

for example (untested) to run explicitly as command line script.

Output to console, if any, if visible in the result pane, automatically opened when
running a tool.

> Will Scintilla serve my purpose.

Scintilla is the component used to display source, you won't use it alone... :-)

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