GitHub or Source Forge may be a good way to go.

Dave Morton - Nov 21, 2012:

Matt, please bear in mind that, for some of us, this is an extremely busy time of the year, and that we may not be able to get to this right away. As a moderator, I read all the posts as soon as I know about them, but seldom these days can I act on them right away. However, I will get to it at some point.

+1

I am very interested in ths as well but am completely under water at the moment.

Doug Danforth

Matt,

I have been following your progress and it’s nice to see that someone is taking an active interest in promoting the use of Chatscript other than Bruce. Kudos!!

Good editors are hard to come by…just ask the Chief of the New York Times!!

MatthewJ - Nov 21, 2012:

I haven’t recieved any feedback on the last version, so I can only take it that it is reading most script files now.

Hey Matthew - you still working on this?  Have you put it up on github or bitbucket yet?  I can see about getting it to run on the mac and/or linux under mono.  I can work out of a git fork.

Eventually I would love to see a graphical editor that was intuitive enough for non technical people to use.  I imagine that is far off but not unreachable?

Matthew hasn’t responded to my query back on march 27.

Eventually I would love to see a graphical editor that was intuitive enough for non technical people to use.

Just to chime in here, I would be much more inclined to use ChatScript if there were more layman’s tools available (read: shortcuts to learning curve).  Graphical tools would be nice, but what I really want is an end to end cloud hosted solution, in other words SaaS.  All I really want to do is deal with the knowledgebase and as quickly and easily as possible; ideally, I want an API into the *backend* of the knowledgebase (independent from any *frontend* dialog system API).

BTW, end to end hosted solution should (ideally) include *customizable* lipsynced animated avatar.  I still firmly believe that a Skype-accessible *talking* head would BYPASS APP DEVELOPMENT ALTOGETHER.  (Not only any PC, but any smart phone can access Skype.)

Until I hear from Matt I whipped up this TextWrangler/BBEdit codeless language plugin so I at least can have some basic syntax highlighting in a decent editor. 

What do others use to get syntax highlighting on chatscript files? 

note: can’t upload file attachments for some reason, if you want a copy of my latest just contact me via the board I guess.

Here is the file - chatbots.org isn’t letting me attach files for some reason so it’s a dropbox link.  You should be able ‘save as’ to your proper TextWrangler/BBEdit plugins folder ( ~/Library/Application Support/TextWranger/Language Modules/) and get simple contextual highlighting.  Note: mac only.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47427484/ChatScriptTopics.plist

Description of writing language modules for TW/BE:  http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/clm.html

I’ve switched to using Eclipse for my chatbot development so I am fleshing out a context sensitive editor using the colorer library and eclipse plugin.  You can grab the chatl.hrc file from the chat brains github project in the HRC directory.  The read me in that directory has instructions on both using it with eclipse and extending it further.  has enough for now to be useful though.

https://github.com/tkuebler/ChatScriptBrains

screenshot of example file with syntax coloring, etc:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47427484/chatscriptcolor.png

Another option might be Notepad++

Probably not as fancy but works OK for us.

Doug,

“An ax made of stone gets the job done.”

Just passing along this tip I picked up from an
advanced computer programming team, once.

I think this expression may refer to “lost art”,
which for me is a very interesting subject.

Doug Danforth - May 18, 2014:

Another option might be Notepad++

Probably not as fancy but works OK for us.

Windows only.  Does it have syntax coloring for Chat-L? Looks like Notepad++ supports user defined syntax highlighting and code folding.  Do you guys have that set up?  Care to share?

Similar for Notepad++ but for Mac is the TextWranger/BBEdit I linked a syntax coloring file to earlier.  I found the syntax coloring facility of TextWrangler to be too limiting for a language like Chat-L that doesn’t have block close statements and using variable indicators ($,%,~, etc).

Eclipse works on all the platforms ChatScript is available on, mac, linux, windows.

Updated the hrc file to include some code folding features and more complete coverage. It’s pretty usable now - you can choose from any of colorer’s ‘skins’ so what’s shown in that screenshot is just one of the options for coloring. (here is another)

Not sure how you guys all work without context coloring - I mean, it’s possible but why handicap yourself?  I must have a few missing brain cells or something ‘cause I need it. :D

@8PLA for stone axe simplicity vi or gtfo. 

We have not programmed in any color coding. It gives us line numbers so is better than Notepad.

Bruce has so much error checking built into ChatScript that I usually just gird my loins, hit build and prepare to take my lumps as ChatScript tells me what a poor speller I am and that my server is open and other such shortcomings .....

Hai . I am beginner in chatbot using chatscript. can anyone help me how to build my own chaTBOT on my server?

Hi all!
my first post here. I’m chatscript newbie

I just experienced excellent! syntax plugin for Sublime editor:
https:// packagecontrol.io/packages/Chatscript Syntax

(source code: https://github.com/kuzyn/chatscript-tmlanguage)

Nevertheless, as backend (unix) programmer I’d like to develop in chatscript using beloved old fashioned vim editor running on headless linux servers (wiothout graphical interface)

My question is:
No one already realized a vim syntax plugin for chatscript language yet ?

if no, I’ll try to code myself the vimscript plugin and I’ll share.
Thanks
giorgio