TextEdit.app doesnt make usable .h files.. What does?

hey guys. last nite i started writting a plugin in shake, to find it simply compile errors EVERY TIME. I took code exactly from the documentation, and tried it, with about 16 RTF errors.

So wheni throw it in a .txt file and send it to a PC, it comes out with extra uneeded jumbled characters

Anything i can do guys? Id hate to send it to a PC EVERYTIME via IM to copy into notepad.

thanks in advance.

.h as in C header file?

TextEdit may be saving in UniCode or a format the PC screws up, you can go into text Edit -> Preferences, Open/Save tab and change the plain text encoding from Automatic to something like Western windows Latin 1.

Also when you do a Save As from textEdit; ensure you have made it plain text (Format -> MAke Plain Text or command + shift _+ t) and then Save As. You can also set the encoding method for the file there too.

Vicky

alright maybe thats it. .h, yes as in C, but eventually it gets converted to a shake macro

Ok thats it! i jsut cant figure out how to get there EVERY TIME. By default, text edit is in RTF, but if i mess around, itll somehow open up a second window, with no ruler, thats in UTF format, which works flawlessly

EDIT: I just reopened, now its in UTF mode. THANK YOU VICKY

You get all the options in Preferences :flower:

Glad it worked hehe, as a C/C++/ObjectiveC/PHP....... programmer I know that the encoding of a text file can often scupper compilers.

Vicky

yea i was switching in preferences and nothing was changing, which was aggervating,but now i can get back to writting my plugins. Thank vicky!