Box-n-Weave Language Support

This Visual Studio Code extension provides rich language support for Box-n-Weave, a text-based graph and diagram creation syntax.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for .boxn and .boxn.text files
• Intelligent parsing of graph, cluster, options, and animation sections
• Comment support for // line comments
• Bracket and label matching
• Automatic bracket and label closing
• Preview panel
• Status bar button to open preview
• Editor corner button to open preview

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code version 1.60.0 or higher
• No additional dependencies required

Extension Settings

Currently, no additional VS Code settings are contributed by this extension.

Known Issues

• Previewing remotely-referenced shapes does not work yet due to vscode extension webpanel security restrictions.
• Initial release may have some edge cases in syntax parsing

Release Notes

0.0.1

• Initial release
• Basic syntax highlighting, bracket-matching,etc. for .boxn files
• Support for graph, cluster, options, and animation sections
• Line comment parsing
• preview panel
  • preview panel supports pulling in sections from the workspace
  • preview panel supports animations
  • preview panel supports embedded custom shapes
  • preview panel does not yet support externally referenced custom shapes

0.0.2

• added the extension icon

0.0.3

• added a link to download the preview as an SVG

0.0.4

• updated box-n-weave.js to 1.0.1 with better node ranking in certain cases

0.0.5

• "Save SVG" link will now default to current folder

0.0.6

• Upgrade to Box-n-weave.js 1.0.2 to fix an issue with the new alternative ranking method

Installation

1. Open Visual Studio Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Box-n-Weave"
4. Click Install

Enjoy creating diagrams with Box-n-Weave!