Bulit in support for highlighting variables?

[omadawn]

Is there built in support for highlighting variables in languages which do not use any special designator like $? Languages like Java and TCL.

I've seen some comments on how to generate a completion provider if you want autocompletion for variables you've declared but didn't see anything on simply highlighting them.

Thanks

[robert]

Unfortunately, there's no built-in support for this. Such a feature really requires semantic knowledge of the language being highlighted, and thus is very language-specific.

[omadawn]

I went through the javadocs looking but hadn't seen anything so I didn't think so. I was just hoping. I figured if it existed it would be language specific and was hoping there was a '.setHighlightUserVariables(boolean)' method on the built in syntax schemes or something I could enable. ^_^

Since it's TCL based and TCL does us the courtesy of using set in front of the creation of variables I suppose I could extend the tokenMaker (Now that I know how. Thank you again) and implement this myself.

Do you have any reasonably straight forward recommendations for how I'd trigger that? IE based on a 'text changed' event or is there some more appropriate event that I should go off in order to avoid seriously bogging down my code?

[robert]

Swing has javax.swing.text.DocumentListener which allows you to get notified when the Document of a text component is modified. That's probably what you'd want to use.

[omadawn]

I was hoping that RSTA would have some easier function that would solve my problem like it seems to for nearly everything else that I'm doing. ^_^ I was hoping to not have to resort to a documentListener I briefly looked at implementing one of those and it didn't seem as simple as most of what I've been able to do w/ RSTA.

TY.

[omadawn]

Ok, I implemented a document listener to do some updates on my nav tree and it was actually pretty simple. Guess I was nervous for nothing. I probably looked at that when I was first figuring out the swing stuff and just didn't want to have to override yet another swing method. TY again.