Syntax highlighting gone

[chazcon]

So I have been using this distro for years and it works flawlessly.

However yesterday I installed v. 1.1.29.00 of AHK and also from the SciTE official site this Windows installer: An installer created by Troy Simpson.

...thinking I was updating both programs to the latest version, but I found my syntax highlighting was gone.

So I uninstalled SCITE (and beware, that Windows distro closes Windows Explorer and causes a black crash on uninstall)

Cleaned out all SciTE references, reboot and clean install of this distro but with AHK v. 1.1.29.00

...still no syntax highlighting. Ugh what have I done? Need my Scite4AHK back.

[gregster]

Scite4AHK can be found here: http://fincs.ahk4.net/scite4ahk/
Relevant thread: https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=62

[chazcon]

gregster thanks but I have all that - the (strange) issue is that syntax highlighting is gone - opening a .ahk file shows all plain text.

Is this an issue with the 1.1.29.00 version of AHK? Does SciTE4AHK not support the latest version of AHK? Anyone running SciTE successfully (with syntax highlighting) with the 1.1.29.00 version of AHK?

[chazcon]

Ok I uninstalled Autohotkey and Scite4AHK, cleared out all bits, rebooted, clean install of previous version AHK 1.1.26.01 and SciTE4AHK.

Same issue, no syntax highlighting. So frustrating.

[chazcon]

SOLVED

Clean install of Windows 10. Yep. When I installed SciTE4AHK it even updated, never did that before.

HAPPY DANCE

[RonRT]

Edit: I have been troubleshooting this issue for past 8 hours; see below for my issue. My solution (without having to reinstall windows) was to uninstall all AHK (v1 and v2) and SciTE, restart, then reinstall both AHK V1 and V2. Next, instead of using SciTE installer, I downloaded Portable.zip from herehttps://www.autohotkey.com/scite4ahk/, unzipped it, then changed the paths to the AHK of the platforms.properties folder as described in this video: [youtube]https://youtu.be/P9avB9ZYVPo?t=331[/youtube]. For reproducibility, open SciTE.exe > right click on toolbar > click Open Platforms Properties > replace all instances of "%AhkDir%" and "$(AutoHotkeyDir)" with the path where AHK is installed (in my case replaced with "C:\Program files\Autohotkey"; without quotations) > save file (overwrite original) > move the unzipped SciTE folder (that should contain the updated platforms.properties) to the folder where AHK was installed (should be the same directory you replaced in the file).
Unpacked archive with updated platforms.properties should be moved to AutoHotkey folder folder structure is:
AutoHotkey
|_______ AutoHotkey.exe
|_______ AutoHotkeyA32.exe
|_______ AutoHotkeyU32.exe
|_______ AutoHotkeyU64.exe
|_______ AutoHotkey.chm
|_______ v2
| |_______ AutoHotkey32.exe
| |_______ AutoHotkey64.exe
| |_______ AutoHotkey.chm
|_______ SciTE
|______ etc...

Original issue:
I've been having the same same issue but I really cannot go through a fresh Windows install.
In my case, I think it started after I changed my Windows User folder name to remove a space (eg "C:\Users\Bob Smith" to "C:\Users\BobSmith") following this tutorial . Everything else seems to work, however, Scite4Autohotkey has stopped showing all syntax highlighting. I have tried every combination of uninstalling AHK and SciTE, removing every instance of either in the registry, restarting computer, reinstalling in "C:/Program files" and in "Username/Appdata/Local" with no success.
Using AutoHotkey V2.0.3 and SciTE V 3.1.0 (installed in the AHK folder). Installation using all default settings and I made no changes to any of the option or property files (attached zip file with all property files).
Lack of syntax highlighting:

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AHK correctly detected by SciTE:

[Bukinnear]

For anyone else having this problem after updating to v2:

1. Set the current platform to v2 (or whichever platform you are having trouble with)

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2. Click Tools -> SciTE4AutoHotkey settings...

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3. Change the style to one of the AHK options

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You're welcome.