AppGameKit for Atom

Use Atom to develop games with AppGameKit! This plugin adds support for the AppGameKit Tier 1 (BASIC) language and all the utilities you'd expect from a modern editor, such as syntax highlighting, intellisense, on-demand compilation, and a REPL-oriented debugger.

Features at a glance

• Syntax highlighting
• Autocomplete for functions, types, constants, globals and variables
• Go To Definition for user-defined functions
• Compile and run
• Debugger using breakpoints and REPL
• Most common snippets
• Open help when pressing F1 in a built-in function
• New project generator

Installation

Install it like any other package, just ctrl-,, go to packages, search for atom-agk, and that's it!

You may need to customize the path to your AGKCompiler.exe file:

Default key bindings

These bindings only apply when editing AGK (.agc) files, and can be changed in the package configuration. By default:

• F1: Open documentation for built-in function under cursor, or documenation home if the function was not found (atom-agk:open-help)
• F2: Go to function definition for function under cursor (atom-agk:go-to-definition)
• F3: Go to include for #include or #insert in current line (atom-agk:go-to-include)
• F4: Toggle debugger breakpoint in current line (atom-agk:toggle-breakpoint)
• F5: Compile project and run (atom-agk:compile-and-run)
• F6: Compile project and run in debug mode (atom-agk:debug)
• F7: Compile project (atom-agk:compile)
• F8: Toggle the debugger terminal (atom-agk:toggle-terminal)
• F9: Toggle symbol explorer (atom-agk:toggle-symbol-explorer)

Generating a new project

Simply ctrl-shift-p (cmd-shift-p on macOS) and run generate-project from there. That will create a new folder at your specified location with a basic AGK project skeleton so you can start hacking right away!

Snippets

This package comes bundled with the most common snippets. To use a snippet, just type the snippet and then press tab. That's it! Continue pressing tab to navigate to the different positions within the snippet.

Some built-in snippets are func, type, if, for, while, repeat, select, case, and dim.

You can always implement your own! Find out how here.

Go To Definition

You can press F2 (or bind atom-agk:go-to-definition to any key combination you want) while stepping on a function to go to it's definition!

Symbol Explorer

You can press F9 (atom-agk:toggle-symbol-explorer) to toggle the symbol explorer:

Symbols from the current file will be showed on top. All other symbols will be sorted alphabetically.

Notes

This is beta-quality software. Pull requests, bug reports and suggestions are welcome. Some things to note:

• Only been tested in Windows, it will most likely break on other platforms
• Only works with AGK Classic, as Studio doesn't expose the compiler executable

Thanks

Particular thanks to the guys at TheGameCreators forums and in particular MadBit for all the help running the debugger and using the compiler from the CLI.