Text editor for scripts ?

Hi all, I'm a newbie in GH scripts ... and here is a newbie question.
Is there an easy way to use your favorite text editor while writing/debugging a GH script ?
I mean some way to move the code back and forth between the script component and the text editor (except copy_&_paste) , or a way to reference source files in the script component ?
How do you write your scripts ? :)
Thanks - Emilio

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on February 20, 2010 at 7:15am

There is no external editor that can be used in any sort of "integrated" way with GH. IMHO, its a very good idea to use Visual Studio as it is a very good IDE for working with the SDK. Intellisense is much more robust than you'll get in GH, and you'll also get real time compile error warnings which can help offset not having a debugger within GH. All in all, it still comes down to copying and pasting though.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "reference source files", but if you mean just referencing a script file that you have on your hard drive, then no. You can reference assemblies/dlls, so if you have some super complicated stuff, you can write that in VS, compile it, then reference it in GH to make things easier.

Permalink Reply by Emilio Morello on February 20, 2010 at 7:42am

Hi Damien,
OK, I just wanted to know if I were missing something obvious ...
I'll keep copying and pasting and exporting code from the script component.
Thank you !
Emilio

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