[Gambas-user] Need help with TextEditor

[Bruce Steers]

On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 15:29, Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
wrote:

> Am 16.09.21 um 19:09 schrieb Bruce Steers:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 16:40, Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de
> > <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Thank you for the links, Bruce. I browsed through several source
> files,
> >     and think I understood the principle.
> >
> >     What I miss is, how do I tell the highlighter which style is which
> >     color?
> >
> >     In the HTML code for instance there is
> >
> >     Add(sQuote, Highlight.String)
> >
> >     But where is a definition for the color for Highlight.String? I
> >     remember
> >     in the old editor, I had to define colors for these.
> >
> >     If I get that to run, I guess I could do the rest by code. In my case
> >     it's only two colors other than "Normal", one for "command" and one
> for
> >     "string".
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Rolf
>


No i'm afraid not.
it's worse than that I think.
You cannot currently create your own TextEditor highlighting routines
without importing gb.form.editor and gb.eval.highlight into your project.
(as far as i know,   i think this is what Ben meant by a parser generator)

If you look at my ScriptEd project source here..
https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/scripted/-/tree/old-gambas/.src

you can see 2 folders , TextEditor and gb.eval.highlight  , they are just
copies of gb.form.editor and gb.eval.highlight.
I imported the folders from gambas source then de-selected the components
from my project properties as they were now built in.
I added the TextHighlighter_Sh.class to gb.eval.highlight/ and the
TextEditorMode_Sh.class to TextEditor/ (they started as copies of the C
highligher) to that application before Sh highlighting was added to gambas.

So i think currently this will be the only way t create your own
independent highlighter/mode

Though i could be mistaken and need correcting on this.
Could someone (Ben) please confirm/deny if add-on highlighting can be done
or is it the internal classes only that will highlight?

All the best
BruceS
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