Re: Textual syntax colorizing
Re: Textual syntax colorizing
- Subject: Re: Textual syntax colorizing
- From: Jonathan Wight <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:15:14 -0600
See the delegates methods of NSTextStorage:
textStorageWillProcessEditing:
and
textStorageDidProcessEditing:
The documentation is very useful. Enjoy.
Jon.
On Dec 11, 2003, at 13:35, DJH wrote:
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Okay, I have a question. BTW, I have been on this list for years now,
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and this is probably my first question. And, I have read all of the
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documentation many times, and I have searched the archives many times
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for the answer. I believe the problem is, I am not sure of the correct
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terminology to use for searches, thus leading to my inability to find
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the information.
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I have an application I'm working on, and in it, I have a text editor
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to allow editing of source code (no, it's not a currently-used
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language). What is the technique for colorizing the syntactical
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representation for the programming language (visually, of course, not
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stored in the actual file)? For example, when I am editing an
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objective-c file in Xcode, it colorizes the keywords and macro
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definitions, etc. according to a particular coloring scheme. Is this
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modification of the visual representation of the source code part of
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the (Objective-C) Cocoa framework somewhere in one of the text
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classes, or is this something Xcode does internally, which would
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require re-implementation completely in order for it to work? I have
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read all of the Objective-C documentation for text-based applications
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and classes, and I'm sure the technique is in there somewhere, I just
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don't quite fully understand the terminology used in the
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documentation. I have eliminated such things as NSInputServer, etc.,
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and I am sure it's a delegate function from one of the other text
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classes, but it eludes me! Please help.
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DJH
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P.S. I get this as a digest, so I won't see a reply for a while.
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