Is there no UDL for scripting C# in Unity 3D

[zenhund74]

Hello dear Notepad ++ developers

I found some hints that there might be a UDL for Unity 3D C#, but it is not in the list (anymore?) .
Any hints, on how to get hold of an UDL file for that?

I googled quite extensively, but didn't find anything.

With kind regards.

[PeterCJ]

There is no Unity3D C# UDL shared with this repository, nor have I ever seen one linked on the community.notepad-plus-plus.org forum.

However, If "Unity 3D C#" is really just C# syntax, with some extra keywords, then UDL might not be the best choice: it's probably easiest to just assign the Unity 3D C# extension to be interpreted as C#, and then add extra keywords to the C# lexer:

1. Settings > Style Configurator: click Language: C#
2. User ext.: = u3d or whatever the extension of "Unity 3D C#" is
3. The Style: INSTRUCTION WORD and TYPE WORD both have User-defined keywords boxes, where you can add in all the extra keywords for the "Unity 3D" keyword extensions to C#

If you'd rather have different colors for the "Unity 3D" keywords as compared to "standard" C# keywords, the built-in lexer isn't enough. But adding the plugin EnhanceAnyLexer, you can define a [c#] section in the config file (Plugins > Enhance Any Lexer > Open Configuration File). For example, if you wanted these fake keywords unity3d and deunify to show up as cyan, and magenta and purple keywords to show up as a magenta color:

[c#]
0xFFFF00 = \b(unity3d|deunify)\b
0xFF00FF = \b(magenta|purple)\b

If you have more words for the same color, just continue adding them inside those parentheses with | between. If you want other colors for other keywords, just use similar lines . The left side of the equal-sign is a color; the right side is a regular expression (the same syntax that's allowed in Notepad++'s regular expression search; the ;-prefixed comments in the default config file for that plugin explains more about the color syntax.

[zenhund74]

Hello pryrt,

thank you for your quick and competent answer. Well the Unity 3D extension for C# is .cs so basically the default extension. I could add some more default keywords for Instruction Word and Type Word. But if e.g. I would add the type Transform I would not get auto-completion to offer me some properties like Transform.position or Transform.rotation. Would that be possible by editing the language file? Maybe I could copy the original file and add important classes with their properties and functions step by step?

Kind regards.

[PeterCJ]

the autoCompletion\cs.xml is a customizable configuration file; you can add any function completion you want to that file, and the next time you run Notepad++, those extra functions and parameters will be available for Function and Parameter Hint completion.

The user manual has a section on auto-completion. Please note the caveats on punctuation in auto-completion (your examples of Transform.rotation, for example).

[zenhund74]

Thank you very much, I think I'll go for customizing the cs.xml. Ideal would be writing a script that goes through the Unity Scripting API and generates the xml file. For me this topic can be closed.

Kind regards.