wxScintilla

Jake L.

Hi,

could anyone provide a short sample of how to do syntax highlighting with wxScintilla? I started with the scintilla sample and did SetLexerLanguage("blitzmax") and GetLexer shows that it recognized this (switched lexer-id to 66). But nothing (visible?) happened, so I must have missed something.

Ole JR

Add these lines to the end of OnInit() of the wxscintilla.bmx example (In the sample folder)
at line 200'ish, after SetBufferedDraw(1).
Then you should get some colors when you build/run..

'Lexer set to BlitzMax
SetLexerLanguage("blitzmax")

'Tell the lexer what keywords we want to highlight, remember ALWAYS lowercase..
SetKeyWords(0, "function method type end endtype endmethod endfunction")

'LexerKeywords we want Blue
StyleSetForeGround(wxSCI_B_KEYWORD, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour("BLUE"))

'The lexer dont understand single line BMax comments :(
'Not Rem/EndRem either...
'StyleSetForeGround(wxSCI_B_COMMENT, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour("RED"))

'Strings we want to be Green
StyleSetForeGround(wxSCI_B_STRING, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour("GREEN"))

Oh. And if you want case correction you have to do it on your own. Scintilla doesn't do/handle that kind of things..

Jake L.

Thank you very much, that should help!