Intouch-Language README

Intouch-Language

• Intouch-Language is an open source extension created for Visual Studio Code (Not official!). It provides syntax highlighting, snippets and auto-format function for Intouch Basic. New since 2022.11.28 - own darkmode theme for VSC, names Intouch Dark.
• Intouch is a programming language for AVEVA (Wonderware) SCADA Intouch Applications.

Example

New Theme

NOTE: The default VS Code theme does not color much. Switch to intouch theme (installed by this extension) or use a theme like one of the following to benefit from the changes:

• Material Theme
• XD Theme
• Noctis
• Kary Pro Colors
• One Monokai Theme
• Winteriscoming
• Popping and Locking
• Syntax Highlight Theme
• Default Theme Enhanced

Example different themes

Intouch Theme Dark	VSC Theme Dark+
Material Theme Darker	VSC Theme Light

Installation

• Standard Installation:
  • Install it in ext.-manager (type Intouch) or from Visual Studio Marketplace
• Install from Github:
  • Copy or clone all in to: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\intouch-language\
    • cd ~/.vscode/extensions/
    • git clone https://github.com/vitalyruhl/intouch-language.git
  • Open shell there and type npm i
  • Run: npm run compile, or npm run watch if you want to make changes in src folder.
  • You must restart VS Code after installation to apply new settings.

Snippets

• Dimb -> Dim Boolean (Discrete)
• Dimi -> Dim Integer
• Dims -> Dim String (Message)
• If# -> If code block
• Ife -> If Else code block
• for# -> add for-next-block
• log# -> Log-Debug
• cb# -> add new Code-Block
• func# -> add new empty Function

Others

Save your code as .vbi or .vi for automatic language recognition.

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Better-Comment Plugin

• Use this Branch (beta) from github - it works on all Languages

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Enjoy!

Please report missing rules or future-requests on this link.

Todo

Known Issues / Notes

The following items are either recently resolved or planned but not yet implemented:

• PLANNED: Range (selection) formatting. Current command formats the entire document.

• PLANNED: Diagnostics (unclosed IF/FOR, unexpected ENDIF/NEXT) – tracked in modernization plan.

• PLANNED: Tokenizer-based nesting & keyword uppercasing refactor for improved robustness.

• NOTE: Multiline IF continuation indentation intentionally uses base + 2 spaces before THEN; THEN line stays aligned with expression by design.

• NOTE: Spacing inside string literals and single-line brace comments is preserved intentionally; only outer code regions are normalized.

• Formatter

  • Issues
    • no issues
  • Planned features
    • Format selected range (currently formats entire document)

• Syntax-highlighting
  • No issues
  • Planned features
    • Add static code diagnostics for common errors

• Snippets
  • No issues
  • No planned features

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What's new in Intouch-Language

V1.5.0

• Added deeper multiline IF continuation indentation (base + 2) keeping THEN line aligned with expression
• Removed spaces before semicolons outside of strings (strings remain untouched)
• Preserved all spacing inside string literals and single-line brace comments
• Added highlighting support for instance prefixes of the form PREFIX:Variable, prefix and variable now use different scopes for theming
• General whitespace normalization (trailing whitespace removal, internal multi-space collapse outside strings/comments)

V1.4.1-V1.4.3

• Add math / intrinsic style functions for uppercasing in formatter: sqr, sin, cos, tan, atn, exp, log, int, frac, round, rnd, sqrt
• bugfix in formatter for '>=' operator
• bugfix in deletion of last line in file
• update dependencies

V1.4.0

• Correct some bugs in regex for syntax-highlighting
• Theme -> Add more compatibility to other languages
• Add more compatibility to other Themes (e.g. material-theme)

V1.3.0

• Add own dark theme based on GitHub (Dark Classic) VS Code theme from BerriJ
• Some bugfixes in regex for Keywords

V1.2.1 - V1.2.4

• Update dependencies
• Bugfix on snippets
• Bugfix trailing whitespace before -

V1.2.0

• Add folding between {region xxxx} and {endregion xxxx}
• Add Nesting between {region xxxx} and {endregion xxxx}
• Auto closing brackets in strings and comments.
• Remove unused dependency with dependabot alert.
• Add wordPattern and indentationRules into language configuration.
• <fix bug - issue #13, formatter formats dashed variable foo-bar --> foo - bar

V1.1.0 - V1.1.1

• Add Code-Blocks for Nesting and Folding in code without keywords Start:{>, End:{<
• Add Snippet cb# : add new Code-Block
• Add Snippet for# : add for-next-block
• Add Snippet func# : add new empty Function
• Correct some spelling mistakes
• Remove debugging settings

V1.0.0

• Add Formatting Function

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Copyright

2021-2025 (c)Vitaly Ruhl

License: GNU General Public License v3.0