Question for the Old Timers

Csound Noobs
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So, I’m not quite certain if this is Csound in origin, or if this is unique to Cabbage, but I have never seen any function call like…

colour:0("red")

Not that I am an expert in language syntax, but I have never seen anything like the “:” used with a function name. And yes, I know they are called “identifiers”, but when they execute, they are functions… (Just an opinion. It may very well be a concept that I just have to accept, but I’ve never seen anything like this, so this is me trying to understand…)

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I only bring this up because Csound does use the “:” to allow the assignment of “rate” to an operation. Rate is something unique to a media language.

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Nothing to do with Csound at all. And perhaps not the finest syntactical decision I ever made! At the time I thought fontcolour:0() and colour:1() were simpler than fontcolouron() and colouroff(). :rofl:

I might overhaul this at some point. With camel case fontColourOn()/colourOn() isn’t so bad.

They are not really functions at all. They are just a construct for the parser. Deep within the Cabbage code base are they actual setColour() functions, or setText(), etc.

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I like the idea of more clear names for these. fontColourOn() and fontColourOff() are much more logical without having to test or look up in docs.

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Yeah, I’m starting to think the same. And it would make life a lot easier in terms of parsing because I don’t have to think about the :1, :0. If I did this I think I would go all in, which would result in a breaking change - if you tried to compile older .csd files with the new version. Your plugins would of course still function the exact same, as they shipped with the older version…

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Any chance of a python script similar to the CamelCase fix? If that were the case, I think I’d be 100% on board.

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For sure, I’d even add it as a function in the main menu so that people can do the conversions directly in Cabbage. :+1:

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As someone who lives in Lite: “Main menu… what main menu?” :innocent:

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Oh yeah, I’m currently upgrading Cabbage to use JUCE 6, I think the writing is on the wall for the CabbageLite, but I will pour more time into the standalone builds before I pull the trigger!