MAXScript Support

[I-d-as]

Language
MAXScript scripting language for 3ds Max.
Additional resources
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAXDEV/2022/ENU/

[I-d-as]

Hello @RunDevelopment

I hope life is good. I will preface all of this by making it clear that I know you are doing much more important things. But in the situation where you have a moment to reply, I would greatly appreciate it!

First I just wanted to thank you so much for your work getting MAXScript as a supported language! Today was my first chance to see your work in action, with the new release of Obsidian Mobile. I attached a screenshot from my vault. This app uses Prismjs for syntax highlighting. I am using blue topaz as a theme which appears to show more of the syntax highlighting than the default theme and some of the other themes. For reference, I also attached a screenshot from the documentation for MAXScript showing that same content. I noticed that many of the methods that are highlighted in the documentation are not highlighted in Obsidian. I guess my question is how can I test the MAXScript syntax highlighting out in its pure implementation so that I can figure out whether it is an issue with Obsidian, the css theme, etc.

I want to again say how much I appreciate what you have done and love the way this is working. But, if those methods are supposed to be highlighted and if there is some way I could tweak the css so that all of the syntax highlighting comes through, I will be the first to dig deep and figure it out because this means a lot to me since I am building a clone of the MAXScript documentation within Obsidian. In the meantime, thanks once more! I can’t wait for the next release of the desktop version of Obsidian so I can hopefully see the code in all its beautiful colors! Honestly for all I know, the mobile version may just be a work in progress implementation of the updated version of Prismjs, which may explain the discrepancy.

Anyways, sorry for the long read. Keep up the great work!!!! 👍👍

[RunDevelopment]

Hi @I-d-as!

how can I test the MAXScript syntax highlighting out in its pure implementation

You can check the raw output of Prism here. Check the "Show tokens" box to see everything Prism produces regardless of the current theme.

I noticed that many of the methods that are highlighted in the documentation are not highlighted

Yes, that's because I couldn't find a good way to detect methods, so they aren't highlighted. The function call syntax for MAXScript is quite complex, so I didn't bother reading the reference regarding this topic.

That being said, since there is demand for better highlighting, I'll give it another go.