Color a Pre-Processor Directive - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 19 years ago by Matthew Smith - Australia

Hi,

Using a pre-processor directive, I have the following correctly outlining:

Rem

End Rem

What I need is to color that entire section (including any words within the section) the required style - in this case green. Is this possible?

I have looked at the /* */ example in the C# Language definition as a guide to just colorising it, but changing /* to Rem and */ to End Rem will not work - it colors everything from that point on.

Can anyone give any advice?

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Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

This one is tricky because of the lexical parsing order of patterns:
1) See if a parent scope (outside of the current language) ends the state
2) Look for a child state start
3) Loop through the pattern groups until one is found that matches...
4) See if a parent scope (inside the current language) ends the state

So what's happening here (if you are just changing the C# /* */ sample), is that the MultiLineCommentWordToken and MultiLineCommentDefaultToken patterns (#3 above) are matching before the end scope (#4 above).

You can either remove those patterns, or can make the comment its own child language.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 26 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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