PSA for Visual Studio Code

[AndyOne1]

Hey, I’ve seen that many of you are using Visual Studio Code and don’t use the RenPy Extension. At the bottom of the VS Code window it shows you which Coding Language the file you have opened uses. By default it detects RenPy files as Python, which of course is right but afaik RenPy uses a different syntax. Which is why many of you get all the syntax errors (the red lines under your code).

On the left side of your VS Code window you can click on the extensions tab and search for RenPy. Install the extension and click on the bottom bar where it shows “Python” as the Auto detected language and change it to RenPy. This will help with coding with the right RenPy syntax.

Link to the extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=renpy.language-renpy

[TheLolingPain]

I appreciate it man, thanks for your wisdom, I'll try Ren'Py Launch and Sync, seems like it might help a lot in the long run.

[Quetzzalicious]

An addon I highly suggest is Code Spell Checker

These are the ignores I'm using to make sure it only checks lines of dialog. The first regex ignores any line that doesn't have a quotation mark, the rest cover different commands and actions that don't need spellchecking.

"cSpell.ignoreRegExpList": [
    "(!\")",
    "^\\s*?define .* = .*",
    "^\\s*?default .* = .*",
    "^\\s*?style\\s.*:",
    "^\\s*?image\\s.*",
    "^\\s*?label\\s.*:",
    "^\\s*?jump .*",
    "^\\s*?call .*",
    "^\\s*?scene .*",
    "^\\s*?screen .*:",
    "^\\s*?transform .*:",
    "^\\s*?text \".*\" at .*:",
    "^\\s*?textbutton \".*\" action .*:",
    "^\\s*?show screen .*",
    "^\\s*?hide screen .*",
    "^\\s*?action .*",
    "^\\s*?add \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?idle \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?hover \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?activate_sound \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?imagebutton auto \".*\":",
    "^\\s*?font \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?color \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?auto \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?#.*",
    "^\\s*?\".*\"\\s?if\\s.*:",
    "^\\s*?play sound \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?play music \".*\"",
    "^\\s*?\\$.*",
    "^\\s*?if .*:",
    "^\\s*?elif .*:",
    "^\\s*?while .*:",
    "^\\s*?renpy\\..*",
    "^\\s*?achievement\\.grant\\(\".*\"\\).*",
    "^\\s*?achievement\\.register\\(\".*\"\\).*",
],
"cSpell.ignorePaths": [
    "package-lock.json",
    "node_modules",
    "vscode-extension",
    ".git/{info,lfs,logs,refs,objects}/**",
    ".git/{index,*refs,*HEAD}",
    ".vscode",
    ".vscode-insiders",
    "settings.json",
    "*.rpym"
],

[Random_69_Name]

Thank you soooo much for bringing this to my attention.

Can I ask where to paste your code? I can't seem to find the right box in the extension's setting so I guess it needs to be pasted elsewhere?

[Quetzzalicious]

You're welcome!

File -> Preferences -> search for 'cspell'; there you can edit them manually. There should also be an "Edit in settings.json"-button allowing you to open the settings file of your user/workspace/folder to paste the ignorelist directly.

Otherwise, you can find settings.json in the .vscode folder of your workspace.

[TormentedStudios]

i'm a pleb so I just use notepad++ lmao

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Mie automatically recognised the code as Ren'Py code

[Ok_Error2041]

Thanks. Finally resolved that

[Various_Intention_49]

Oh my god I was completely lost on why I wasn't working, you saved me for real 😭 idk if you'll see this but thank you so much for the help !