I will still start my Basic projects in Visual bB because it has helped a great deal pointing out errors, but when projects get large near the end, the Visual bB editor becomes unable to handle things and I find it best to switch to jEdit which can parallel the way I work in Visual bB. If a goto label has a label to go to or not). Granted it doesn't have the Utility Program Editors that Visual bB has for sprites, playfields, music and sound, color value chooser, and exhaustive syntax checking (i.e. I don't think it is coming across the fact that this is less like a text editor and more like an IDE environment. The errors (reported as warnings at the bottom right) in running the 5.1 in Java 1.6 are gone.
JEdit extracts lexical rules for syntax-coloring from the lists of keywords, operators, and regular expressions in the mode file. It acts more like an Application as it doesn't spawn a java program. JEdits syntax highlighting and indentation logic for a particular file is driven by the 'mode' xml file associated with the files extension (.js. JEdit 5.2 is nicer for a number of reasons. The jEdit 5.2 pre-release requires Java version 1.7.
#JEDIT COMPILER JAVA INSTALL#
You must install newer versions from the Java website downloads.Įven though I was at the latest OSX 10.9.5, the newest Java I had was 1.6.
#JEDIT COMPILER JAVA MAC OSX#
In Mac OSX it seems apple has stopped updating Java.