Hi, does somebody know a good code editor that works wel with the “edit” button in the script editor menu?
Hi, does somebody know a good code editor that works wel with the “edit” button in the script editor menu? The default script editor is OK, but there are way better alternatives.
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I’ve used DroidEdit somewhat well, but if I use the “always open with” through the Script Editor, the editor fails to open the file
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Yes that’s my problem. Droidedit doesn’t edit the actual script in lightning launcher but one saved elsewhere. Or is there some trick I don’t know about that makes it so you can press save in droidedit and it works in lightning launcher. Otherwise you would continuesly be copy/pasting right?
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Yes, the external editor opens and saves a file in the LL tmp folder. Make sure you save in the external editor (DroidEdit), then back out of it and back to the LL script editor. For the most part, the script editor will sync back up. Although I’ve had some issues with that in the past
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Where is the “always open with” option you talk about in your first response? If I push “edit” in the side menu of the script editor it opens up droidedit ,but says there is an error opening the file. There are some files in the tmp folder, but they are no .js files.
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Colin de Roos the first time you hit Edit, did you get a prompt to select an app? You probably selected DroidEdit and clicked “Always open with this app”. Clear your defaults on DroidEdit to get the prompt again. Now back in the script editor, select DroidEdit with “this time only”, but do this each time. Make sure to save the script within DroidEdit
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No I didnt het a prompt. I think because lightning launcher thinks it’s the only external app with which I can edit scripts. So maybe if there is another app it supports I would get a prompt. I also can’t clear defaults on droidedit (greyed out)
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Gotcha
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Sounds like it’s buggy. Any insight from other scripters?
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Try Quoda, maybe.
Lightning doesn’t “think” this is the only external editor, but Android does. Hence the defaults cannot be cleared, since it seems there is a single match.
You may have other editors installed, but in that case this mean they don’t accept to be launched to edit JS file.
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Installed Quoda, so now I have 3 recognised editors. Quoda seems to interface with LL better than DroidEdit does. Thx for the recommendation!
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Quoda works for me too. Thanks for your help 😀
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Well at least I thought. The loading of the script works in both apps, but lightning doesn’t sync backup. I could do this with a script I think though.
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Always save before close in Quoda to sync back.
EDIT: and close script.js in Quoda to avoid confusion later.
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Tried that multiple times in quoda and droidedit. Didn’t work.
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Solution: http://www.pierrox.net/android/applications/lightning_launcher/wiki/doku.php?id=script_external_editor_script_importer
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i always use quoda and never have any issues if i do what Lutz Linke you have to save in quoda and a recomended close of script.js otherwise everytime a script is opened its name will be script.js. Use back to get out of quoda so you will get back into LL’s script editor, and hit back again to back out of the editor.Â
in case you forgot to close a previous script.js and worked in a new one. you can just close it and it wont save over the newer version
For me the only reasons that i use a external editor are . syntax highlighting and a smaller font for a better overview.
oh and a occasional “undo”
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