
The only one I change is to select "WORD" then enter any keywords in the User-defined keywords box that aren't treated like keywords in the VB / VBS language, e.g: endif void invalid float dynamicĦ. In the Style column, you can change the styles used for comments, keywords, operators, etc. I just use the default, but if you like the fancy colors then go ahead, although I wouldn't recommend the bright pink Hello Kitty theme or you'll probably go blind! Next, from the Language drop-down, select 'VB / VBS', and in the User Ext. There are about 21 different colored themes to choose from. First, select the theme from the drop-down box. Set up Notepad++ for syntax-highlighting of brs files using the VB/VBS template: Settings>Style Configurator. brs file, select Open with., browse to the Notepad++ executable (C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe), check the box marked 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file), click 'OK'.ĥ. To do this run Explorer, right-click on any. brs fie, it opens that file in Notepad++. Set up your WIndows files associations, so that when you click on a. Note: you may want to initially set up and configure Notepad++ (particularly when changing the theme), while running as a Windows 'Administrator' (right-click on the Notepad++ executable, then click 'Run as administrator'), otherwise changes you make to the configuration may not be preserved.Ĥ. From a Windows command prompt, type: curl -version to check that you have the right version installed. There should be a single file, curl.exe, that you should put in some directory reachable via your PATH environment variable, or specify the fully-qualified path-name in the macro defined in step 9 below. On that page click the 'Download WITHOUT SSL' link. That will take you to another page that says, "cURL groks URLs".

Scroll down in the Packages section to the 'Win32 - Generic' entry and click on the Win32 zip version that just says "binary" (NOT one of the SSL versions). Download curl from, a free program that you'll use to deploy files to your Roku. msi installer from (that's the 9.20 version there's a new version at least 15.12, that I haven't tested yet).Ģ. Download 7-ZIp from, a free zip program that you'll use for compressing the channel files. It may seem like a lot of steps, but once you have it set up it makes it very easy to edit and deploy Roku code, if you're running a Windows system:ġ. Someone (Komag) was asking about setting up Notepad++ as an ' IDE' for Roku development, so here are a few things I've done to make that work.
