Excel functions editor - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 9 years ago by jcmag

Version: 14.1.0321

Hi,

I'm new to Actipro SyntaxEditor; I need to develop an Excel-like app, with an editor that displays Excel functions in color, and with intellisense (for macros, and named cells defined in the Excel file).

Where should I start? Should I define my own xml language file? (one drawback I see now is that the list of macros and named cells is dynamic; each Excel file will have a different list. So, should I create the xml language file dynamically?)

Thanks in advance

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Posted 9 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hello, yes you could make a core XML definition that has all the keywords, etc. that will be constant. Then maybe have an empty lexical pattern group that you will intend on dynamically modifying at run-time.

For each document, you'd load up a new instance of your language definition and update the lexical pattern group as appropriate. Then that would get you customized document-specific syntax highlighting.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v23.1.2) was released 23 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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