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No Outline Information for Lua Files [message #901467]

Sun, 12 August 2012 19:03

Rob Dixon

Messages: 6
Registered: August 2012

Junior Member

I have installed the Lua Development Tools, both as a stand-alone IDE and as a plug-in for my main Eclipse application, but am unable to get it to display any Outline information for the .lua files in my project.

This is doubly odd as the project is a mix of Lua and XML, and the XML files are outlined properly despite there being no XML editor on offer.

I am quite willing to believe that the problem is my own stupidity, but I have been scrathcing my head over this on and off for days now and can't progress.

I'm running on Windows 7 64-bit. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

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Re: No Outline Information for Lua Files [message #901468 is a reply to message #901467]

Sun, 12 August 2012 19:13

Benjamin Cabé

Messages: 201
Registered: July 2009
Location: Toulouse, France

Senior Member

Hi Rob!

Care sharing an example of the files you're trying to edit?
You say they are a mix of XML and Lua... do they have a .xml file extension? If so, they are most likely opened by default by the XML editor in Eclipse, not the Lua one...

My blog: http://blog.benjamin-cabe.com

[Updated on: Sun, 12 August 2012 19:13]

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Re: No Outline Information for Lua Files [message #901470 is a reply to message #901468]

Sun, 12 August 2012 19:59

Rob Dixon

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Registered: August 2012

Junior Member

They're pretty standard Lua and XML. I didn't mean to imply that the syntaxes were mixed within a file - there are some XML files named *.xml and some Lua files named *.lua. The syntax colouring is working fine, I just have a blank outline

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Re: No Outline Information for Lua Files [message #901471 is a reply to message #901470]

Sun, 12 August 2012 20:06

Rob Dixon

Messages: 6
Registered: August 2012

Junior Member

More information: the stand-alone installation doesn't syntax colour the XML and displays An outline is not available in the outline frame, which is greyed.

However the Lua files are syntax coloured and the outline frame it white with no message, presumably meaning that it can show an outline but there's nothing to show. Also, when I try to use 'Open Declaration' on an identifier it pings mw and does nothing. I'm making sure to use global variables to test this.

It's possible I have added the files to the project wrongly as I've been using Eclipse for only a couple weeks. I used File/Import/General/File System. But I can't a better way to do it and the documentation seems to say I've done the right thing

[Updated on: Sun, 12 August 2012 20:08]

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Re: No Outline Information for Lua Files [message #901785 is a reply to message #901471]

Tue, 14 August 2012 15:11

Marc Aubry

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Registered: August 2012

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Hi Rob,

Unfortunately, the current outline is quite limited. Only two things are handled by the outline :

* first level local variables and functions ("first level" means locals that have file scope)
* Any module, function and types commented using luadoc

If you don't have neither of this, your outline must be empty.

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