Syntax Highlighting

[David Loomes]

I seem to be having a no. of issues with the regexp evaluation within the new edit control (4.1.0.50). It would appear that regexps are not being evaluated correctly. For example matches 1.2, although it shouldn''t doesn''t match 1.2, although it should utilises the first problem above and matches 1, 1.2 and 1.2e3. Not the correct behaviour, but usable. Extending the above to does not match 1.2e-3 as you would expect. Am I doing something wrong here, or is the regexp evaluation broken? David

[Administrator]

Hi David, I have attached a sample that illustrates how to apply syntax highlighting for 1.2e-3.Let me know if this meets your requirements. Regards, Ebenezer.P

RegularExpression.zip

[David Loomes]

Thanks for this. It''s good as far as it goes, but if I add an additional sublexem to allow ''+'' in the exponent as well as ''-'', it stops. Other additions outside of the numeric lexem have the same effect. The attached config file doesn''t work at all properly with your example, although it appears it should. In general it seems that there are rules being applied other than those in the xml file. For example, if I specify 3 lexems, ''a'', ''b'' and '','', then I find ''a,b'' is highlighted correctly, as is ''a b ,''. But ''ab,'' will not be recognised. It''s as if the editor has an internal list of delimiters which it uses to split lines before looking for regexp matches. It would help a lot if there were some documentation describing exactly what''s going on. Any assistance greatly appreciated. David

Config1.zip

[Administrator]

Hi David, I have attached a sample that illustrates how to apply syntax highlighting for ''''+'''' in the exponent .Please refer to the following section of Essential Edit user guide for information in this regard : Creating a Custom Language Configuration File The Essential Edit user guide can be accessed online at this link below : Essential Edit Let me know if this meets your requirements. Regards, Ebenezer.P

RegularExpression0.zip

[Administrator]

Hi David, The Essential Edit user guide can be accessed online at this link below : Essential Edit Regards, Ebenezer.P

[David Loomes]

Ebenezer, sorry but this doesn''t work at all for me. I''m using Visual Studio 2005 and Syncfusion 4.1.0.50 When I build and run this example, all of the ''.'', ''+'' and ''-'' characters are highlighted as operators, not part of the number. If I remove the outer level lexems for these characters, the numeric lexem starts working correctly. >Hi David, > >I have attached a sample that illustrates how to apply syntax highlighting for ''''+'''' in the exponent .Please refer to the following section of Essential Edit user guide for information in this regard : > >Creating a Custom Language Configuration File > >The Essential Edit user guide can be accessed online at this link below : > >Essential Edit > >Let me know if this meets your requirements. > >Regards, >Ebenezer.P >

RegularExpression0.zip

[David Loomes]

Creating a Custom Language Configuration File > Thanks for this link, it does have some of the info required in it. It confirms that ''+'' and ''='' are default split characters, although I''d guess there are others- ''.'' and white space for example. There are also quite a few attributes used in the default xml files which are not mentioned Indent IndentationGuideline AutoNameExpression AutoNameTemplate IsCollapseAutoNamed ContentDivider are just some that can be found in the examples but which are missing from the documentation. I hope this will be recrified in future because they seem to do quite useful things! Thanks again for your efforts David