[Typo3-dev] TypoScript Editor

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Igor Dimitrijevic wrote:

> I am working on flash typoscript editor. First thing to do will be syntax
> highlighting and auto-tabing. Since I am not very experienced with
> typoscript I would like to hear your ideas about it.
> Also, is there any similar project going on?

There have been talks and some excitement. But no progress that I know of.

The main obstacle is the lack of formal declaration (what is a poperty 
what is an object, etc). TS has a sybtax but it's meaning is usually 
determinded by the code that parses it. Can more or less easily done by 
using the TSref but is a problem for extensions.

Before anyone starts a TS editor I would encourage the interested 
parties to agree on some kind of TS meta data. The meta data must be of 
such kind that any extension developer can add infos about the TS 
configuration of the extension.

I recommend xml for this as Typo3 has adpoted this format for flexforms 
and now localization already.

Masi