Reformat Text / Code ?

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Posted 17 years ago by Richard Beyer - KBS Leipzig
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Hi,

is there a possibility to perform an action like "reformat code or text"

my intention is to reformat some xml texts


greetings
richard

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Posted 17 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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We have stubs of methods you can implement in your SyntaxLanguage class to do formatting. Both the FormatDocument and FormatSelection methods call a virtual FormatTextRange method. You can place functionality in a FormatTextRange override to do the actual formatting. I don't believe any of our current languages have implementations of this yet but that is where you would do it.

If you do that, you should also override FormattingSupported to return true.


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Posted 17 years ago by Richard Beyer - KBS Leipzig
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thank you, i'll try this
Posted 16 years ago by tobias weltner
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I am trying to implement this and inserted a FormatTextRange sub into my language.
However, I am wondering what I am supposed to do inside of this sub to do the actual formatting. Do you have a code sample for me?
Posted 16 years ago by tobias weltner
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I managed to get the code working.
However, when I format the code, the caret position is not retained even though I set the option RetainSelection. I assume this is because the caret position was inside the changed text.
I therefore manually reset the caret position which works fine. However, now I see the following:
- when I call FormatDocument, the editor scrolls to the end of the document
- a split-second later, the original position is retained through my own code which I execute right after FormatDocument returns.

This is all understandable and ok. However, I am looking for a way to prevent the editor from scrolling temporarily to remove the unwanted flicker. I worked around it by temporarily setting visible=false. I can reduce the flicker this way but not completely remove it. So I am wondering if there is something else I can try. I tried SuspendLayout/Resumelayout but this won't work. Any hints? Thx!
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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In that method override you'll just want to do a Document.ReplaceText as the main final operation.

What about trying Suspend/Resume painting on the SyntaxEditor control to help with the flicker?


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Posted 16 years ago by tobias weltner
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that did it...! thx!
Posted 16 years ago by Lee Grissom - Quest Software, Inc.
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How did you keep the editor from scrolling after replacing the text? Here's what I wrote, but it doesn't prevent the Editor control from scrolling.

C# code
int caretOffset = Editor.Caret.Offset;
Editor.SuspendPainting();
Editor.Document.ReplaceText(DocumentModificationType.ReplaceAll,
0,
Editor.Document.Length,
Editor.Document.Text));
Editor.Caret.Offset = caretOffset;
Editor.ResumePainting();
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Maybe store the selected view's FirstVisibleDisplayLineIndex and FirstVisibleX, then restore before resuming painting?


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Posted 16 years ago by Lee Grissom - Quest Software, Inc.
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Thanks, that seems to do the trick.
The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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