tabbed lines

[Nate]

Does RSyntaxTextArea support tab lines, like SciTE? Eg:



The lines also highlight if your cursor is on a brace at that indentation level and there is a matching brace.

[robert]

The lines themselves will be quick 'n easy to add (in fact, I'm pretty sure the code's already in there somewhere, but I never finalized it). Having them highlight when you're on a closing brace will be a tad more work, but this kind of stuff is the thing I love, so I'll definitely look into it!

RSTA development has been frozen for a couple of weeks due to an extreme level of stress at work, but I'll get to this as soon as I can.

[Nate]

Sweet! I find the lines really help. The highlighting is very cool but only occasionally useful.

[robert]

Try grabbing the latest from SVN. Call

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textArea.setTabLines(true);


to draw the dotted line at tab stops in whitespace tokens. Forgot to add the ability to change its color, I'll add that later though.

[Nate]

Cool! I updated, but don't see tab lines. I also don't see matching braces, not sure if that is related? Any ideas? Code is here (TableLayoutEditor has the RSyntaxTextArea):
http://code.google.com/p/table-layout/s ... ut%2Fswing

[robert]

Hmm. I'll look again, but it's working for me. I'll try uploading a new RSTA example applet with the option available, to see if you can see it in the applet. Then we'd know whether it's your crappy code or mine.

Also, when you say "I also don't see any matching braces," do you mean that the standard "bracket matching" feature isn't working for you, or something to do with your request for the relevant dots to highlight when your caret is at a bracket? The latter I haven't considered yet; RSTA doesn't currently retain enough state information to do such a thing for arbitrary languages at the moment, I don't think.

[Guest]

I meant the standard bracket matching doesn't occur in my app.

[robert]

Change RagelTokenMaker to extend "public boolean getCurlyBracesDenoteCodeBlocks()" to return true. That will solve your bracket matching problem. If my wife will let me have some time to be introverted this weekend, I'll dig into the tab line painting.

[Guest]

RagelTokenMaker is a base class I use for convenience when using Ragel with RSyntaxTextArea. The class that my app actually uses for tokens is TableLayoutTokenizer. It is hard to read because most of it is code generated from this much easier to read file, but (at the bottom) I already have getCurlyBracesDenoteCodeBlocks returning true.

I dug into it a little and found that RSyntaxUtilities.getMatchingBracketPosition only works if the bracket is a Token.SEPARATOR. I changed my TableLayoutTokenizer to use Token.SEPARATOR and it does indeed work. However, I match parenthesis and square bracket with different token types because I want to color them differently. I also would like pointy brackets to be matched. I went ahead and modified getMatchingBracketPosition to do what I need for now.

This is probably the same problem with my tab lines. I'm using my own token types, but I see now that RSyntaxTextArea assumes I will use its token types (eg, Token.NUM_TOKEN_TYPES). I rearranged my parsing to differentiate from plain text and whitespace, then I used Token.WHITESPACE for whitespace, and now I have tab lines. Note sure what else gets messed up by using my own token types.

It might be cool if the TokenMaker has methods like isWhitespace(int type) and isSeparator(int type) to allow a little more flexibility. It hasn't needed it, since adding support for a new language is so hard with JFlex. The Ragel way of parsing is really sweet.

You can see my app running here:
http://table-layout.googlecode.com/svn/ ... or.jnlp?12

[Guest]

When I move the cursor through tab lines, I notice they are drawn a little strange: