How to use Token.IsComment

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.

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

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.

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.

Hi Mike,

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

i'm bummed that this didn't make it into the latest update (or am i missing something?). Is this still on the table?

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.

Thanks, i'll give it a second look.