Syntax Highlighting

[Heinz]

What determines whether syntax highlighting is activated or not respectively how can I activate it? I probably have pressed a wrong hot key and now the syntax highlighting for new programs is deactivated (when I load old ones, the highlighting works properly).

[Richard]

Are you creating a new PPL file by any chance?

If so, you have to save it before it will highlight anything.

Richard.

[kornalius]

Yes, syntax highlighing only works on .ppl files.

[Heinz]

The problem is, that when I create a new ppl file, then copy for example the winAPI skeleton into it, save and run it the highlighting doesn't work (also if I close everything and start PPL again and load the file again, the highlighting doesn't work). However with old files the highlighting works fine.
There is also another difference: in the directory where the files are which have no syntax highlighting, the system creates a file function.dat with the names of all PPL functions in it (which could be used for syntax highlighting). So this seems somehow related.

[kornalius]

function.dat should be located where the PIDE is located nowhere else.

Do you save your file with a .ppl extension?

[Heinz]

Yes, the files are properly saved as ppl. The origin of the problem was, that I pressed a wrong hot key (in the Borland environments most of the hotkeys are different and sometimes I simply get the wrong hotkeys). Unfortunately I don't remember which key combination caused the problem.
It doesn't matter much. Probably when I reinstall PPL, it will also be solved :)