Bocce

Bocce is the Empeld Boo internal preprocessor. It also ships next to the game as bocce.exe, so that you can test compile your scripts outside of the game.

Bocce is a preprocessor for the Boo language.

Bocce preprocessor directives

The import wildcard Bocce allows you to import nested namespaces

simply by specifying a wildcard. Eg. if you need to import a bunch of namespaces in essentials, simply do:

 import essentials.Blocks.*

This can be very powerful, but will also generate a lot of unused namespace warnings.

Including other files You can include files from areas of your code,

or boccelib, simply by using the #include statement

 #include "macros"

This will automatically search within your project first, and then in any included paths. For example, plugins includes boccelib/, and UI also includes ui/lib/

Assembly references

You can add an assembly reference to your file using

 #reference plugins/essentials.dll

Macros Macros can be very powerful to simplify writing Boo code

(which can sometimes be verbose). They are similar to how C implements macros, but combined with the power of regex.

eg. I define the @Dependency macro to be this:

 #define "@Dependency (\w+) (\w+)" "[pluginbase.Dependencies.Dependency] final $2 as $1"

Debugging macros Macros can be hard to debug, that's why I include

extra debug information when you compile using the `-v` flag (Verbose).

Special Variables Special variables in Bocce are surrounded by

%, and can be very useful in debugging or describing relative files and paths.

Eg,

@Declare TextureResource _resolver.Resolve("%DIR%/woodchips.jpg")

Here are defined special variables:

Name	Description
%DIR%	The current path to the source file path/to/
%PATH%	The full path to the source file, eg path/to/myfile.boo
%FILENAME%	Just the filename of the file, eg myfile.boo
%LINE%	The current line number