How to use Token.IsComment

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Posted 12 years ago by Joachim Schwieren
Version: 12.1.0302
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Hi,

the Token-class has a IsComment member to determine if this token is a comment? How can this property be set? Is there a way to define a certain lexical state in the XML syntax definition file of a dynamic language as "comment" which will then set all token which as in this state to IsComment=true?

Thanks for your help and best regards,

      Joachim

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Answer - Posted 12 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Joachim,

It's just an informational property, however it's only usable by programmatic lexers that make their own token classes.  There isn't anything on dynamic lexers that will set it.  To check for a comment in a dynamic lexer, you'll want to compare the token's ID or key to a list of comment-related IDs/keys.


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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
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If that's the case then how do the GoToNextNonWhitespaceOrCommentToken() and GoToPreviousNonWhitespaceOrCommentToken methods work when using a Dynamic language?

I already have a problem open concerning these functions NOT skipping over tokens that are defined with isWhitespace="True", but if I can't set isComment then these functions are basically useless.

Or am I missing something here?

Thanks
Mike

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Mike,

Sorry but dynamic lexers don't have a way to set IsComment right now.  You can easily make a similar method though that loops through tokens, checks their token IDs/keys for a Comment value or Whitespace value, then quit if you find a token that doesn't match that criteria.  It would be a simple procedure to write.


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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
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That's what I did.

However since you have the infrastructure already in place (and specific methods defined in the TextStream class to use it) could you please add a way to set isComment for Dynamic languages in a future release.

Answer - Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Mike,

Yes, we already added it for the next maintenance release.


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Posted 11 years ago by James Sconfitto - Exele Information Systems, Inc.
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i'm bummed that this didn't make it into the latest update (or am i missing something?). Is this still on the table?

Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi James,

It is in there already, however it looks like we might have missed a couple places in the ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.LanguageDefinition.xsd file where IsComment should have been added.  So it might not show up in Visual Studio Intellisense everywhere it should.  We'll fix that for the next version.


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Posted 11 years ago by James Sconfitto - Exele Information Systems, Inc.
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Thanks, i'll give it a second look.

The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 25 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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