Update CoffeeScript compiler?

Hi guys,

first of all thanks a lot for the great tool!

I was wondering which version of the CoffeeScript compiler you guys are using, and if it's an old one, if you could update the workbench to the current version 1.1.3 (Nov. 8, 2011)

I noticed that the following is not working correctly:

CoffeeScript

a = 0b10

Compiled JavaScript Mindscape Web Workbench

/* An error occurred while compiling the CoffeeScript file.  Details:

Error: Parse error on line 1: Unexpected 'IDENTIFIER'
 */

Compiled JavaScript CoffeeScript Website

var a;

a = 2;

Thank you,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Sure! I've made a beta build for you with the 1.1.3 compiler and you can download this at:

http://assets.mindscape.co.nz/Downloads/Mindscape.WebWorkbench.Integration.10.vsix

(You may need to manually uninstall the existing version through Extension Manager first.)

We've given it a smoke test but we don't have the resources right now to test it exhaustively (which is why we're not yet putting it on the Visual Studio Gallery), so if you could kick it around a bit and let us know if you run into any regressions, we'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

Hi Ivan,

thx a lot! Looks great so far. I let you know if I find anything broken.

On another note: There seem to be some problems with the code coloring when ### comments are involved.

repro steps:

1.

### the y in this case is green
###

yearsOld = max: 10, ida: 9, tim: 11

as well as in this case:

### a comment ###

# the y in this case is green
yearsOld = max: 10, ida: 9, tim: 11

2.

### a comment
###

# now, the y and e are green
yearsOld = max: 10, ida: 9, tim: 11

3.

save this one, close the file, re-open it. everything black.

### a comment ###

# now, the y and e are green yearsOld = max: 10, ida: 9, tim: 11

### a comment ###

Btw, is it possible to change the color schema for CoffeeScript, as well as adding color for other language keywords? (e.g. and, and not, &&, switch, when, class etc.) similar to http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

Thank you, Daniel

Thanks for the info about here-comments -- we'll take a look.

You can set colours via the Visual Studio Options dialog, Fonts and Colors page. We just use the various Script colours defined there (Script Comment, Script Keyword, etc.). I think we do colourise keywords such as switch, and, when and class but I have a feeling the default colour scheme has Script Keyword as 'automatic.' Try changing Script Keyword to your preferred colour (you may need to close and reopen the file to see updates). Note that Visual Studio will apply this colour to other scripting languages too -- we don't separate out a special colouring scheme just for CoffeeScript.