Is it possible to add a new reserved word for a java syntax?

[Gilberto...]

I want to add a few reserved words like:

type, then, func, proc

, in my project using rSyntaxTextArea, is that possible?

[robert]

There is unfortunately no way out-of-the-box to do this. There are two approaches you can take:

• If all you literally need is to add keywords, but all other syntax is still Java syntax, you can try doing what I suggest in this post in another thread. For Java, you'd have to override a different addToken() method:

java code:

public void addToken(char[] array, int start, int end, int tokenType,
                     int startOffset, boolean hyperlink) {
   if (tokenType==Token.IDENTIFIER) { // Assuming all of your new highlighted words are currently "identifiers"
      int value = myWordsToHighlight.get(array, start, end);
      if (value != -1) {
         tokenType = value;
      }
   }
   super.addToken(array, start,end, tokenType, startOffset, hyperlink);
}

• You can use TokenMakerMakr to create your own TokenMaker class for your language. You can easily recreate the basic syntax rules of a simpler language like Java, and define your own keywords. As discussed in that blog post though, you'll have to check this out from the trunk of SVN; there's no actual download for it currently.

Good luck!