openedge - How to get syntax highlighting in Progress 11.6 AppBuilder's section editor and procedure editor

Question

This question is a follow-up of this one:

My situation is the following: I would like to do some development. There exist tools who offer syntax highlighting, but the official tools seem not to, as you can see from those images:

Syntax highlighted excerpt of previous answer:

What do I see when I do this:

According to my colleagues, there was syntax highlighting in the past, but as a result of some upgrade, there wasn't anymore, and they have no idea what happened.

Does anybody know how to get syntax highlighting in Process' release 11.6 AppBuilder and corresponding tools?

For your information, for syntax highlighting purposes, I'm currently using the Notepad++ one, as described in this URL.

edit after question about configuration

Hereby an excerpt of the configuration, as requested:

Configuration File:     C:Progressx86OpenEdgePROGRESS.CFG

Company Name:   Microsoft

Product Name:   Progress Dev Studio OE
User Limit:     2
Expiration Date:    None
Version Number:     11.6            
Machine Class:      KB
Port Number:    31

There are similar entries of the product names "OE Workgroup RDBMS", "Client Networking" and "Translation Manager".

(For security reasons, I've removed any referenced about IDs, like serial numbers, I hope the control numbers are not what you're looking for?)

Thanks in advance

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65559607/how-to-get-syntax-highlighting-in-progress-11-6-appbuilders-section-editor-and

Answer 1

OK - different scenario. You do actually have a Progress Developer Studio license (Eclipse based IDE). In that case, Progress is not providing the color-coding in the classic AppBuilder I'm afraid. That was a st...d Product Management decision years ago to save some pennies on 3rd party royalties.

If you're licenses are coming from the OEDK or PSDN subscription, you can install OpenEdge Studio in parallel - as the subscription contains both products. That's the license that provides the color-coding for the AppBuilder.

If you're not using Progress Developer Studio (Eclipse based IDE) now and will not do so in the foreseeable future, you could reach out to Progress Software and apply for a license change.

I'm afraid this is more a commercial issue than a technical issue.