Syntax colouring has stopped working

Scripting Forums AppleScript Studio & Xcode
#1

In XCode 2.0 in Tiger. My Applescript code used to colour and indent itself automatically when I compiled the application. Now the code is just all black text. As I enter new code it is entered in purple, but never recolours or formats itself. If I save then close and reopen the project, the new purple text has turned black.

In the format menu, Syntax Colouring is set to “Default for file type” with a little dash next to Applescript. I tried selecting Applescript to put a tick next to it, but it made no difference.

The syntax colouring still works in Script Editor. I’ve tried Googling and searching the forum here and MacOSXHints but I can’t find anything.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Mark

#2

Hi Mark,

We all seem to have the same problem, more or less.

Please see the exchanges in the post below by deanshavit about lost syntax coloring.

I hope we all find a way to go about this problem.

archseed

#3

Hi archseed

I didn’t see that post. To be honest I haven’t look that hard recently after I spent hours searching a few weeks ago :slight_smile:

My app is quite large too, and the syntax colouring stopped working after I pasted a large chunk of code in to the source. I guess it must be a bug in XCode then! :frowning:

Thanks
Mark