Escaping JavaScript variables does not work properly

[Christian Budde]

In order to set the resource strings from within a (JSCodeGen'ed) project it's necessary to update the $R variable.

However, it's currently not possible to do so (at least I do not know any working ways). If for example one would write something like:

asm
   $R = ["some content"]
end;

the compiler complains "Hexadecimal digit expected".

To make it compile it's necessary to escape the $ sign like:

asm
   &$R = ["some content"]
end;

However, this unfortunately ends in code still containing the escape character "&".

[Christian Budde]

I just found a good workaround for this issue:

var ResourceStrings external '$R': Variant;

It doesn't render the issue invalid, but at least it's working and it's more pascalish.

[Eric Grange]

Issues traces to TdwsJSLanguageExtension.ReadInstr, which does a TestName before switching the tokenizer, and if the first token within the asm block is a name starting with '$' it goes kaboom.

asm
   ; $R = ["some content"]
end;

And yes, using an external variant is preferable, you can also use an external function (tagged with "property") if you want it to be read-only:

function ResourceStrings : Variant; external '$R' property;

(it's the syntax for JS external properties, but it works in that case as well)

[Eric Grange]

Fixed Issue #103

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