nested languages breaking out even when inside comments or s

Yes we're aware of this... please see a posting from a while back named "Nested Language Support". That explains it and what we might be able to do in the future for handling it.

anyone else looking for the answer should goto the <A HREF="http://www.actiprosoftware.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=11&t=000016" TARGET=_blank>Related Post</A>.

doh! i appologize for not using the search feature. :|

you guys had a great idea 'bout moving the string pattern into the default state (seems like it'd be faster), rather than having it as it's own state (which, imo makes the parsing slower).

thanks again for your help!

[ 10-02-2004: Message edited by: SamWare ]

No problem at all... glad our workaround helped you.

i wanted to share my findings after spending a lot of time trying to figure out the right regular expression for the job.

i hope this helps somebody out there. <IMG SRC="smile.gif" border="0">


put this code in the PatternGroups of the DefaultState for whatever language. NOTE: if the language-to-be-formatted supports Multiline Strings, then just remove the \n's in the expressions.

[ 10-02-2004: Message edited by: SamWare ]

I have exactly the opposite problem to the original poster! I need a state transition to occur in the middle of a comment line, but it is being ignored. I am using the latest version of SyntaxEditor (2.5.0154). Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gareth.

Gareth,

The lexical parser will continue matching a pattern as long as it can. So say your comments are currently being parsed into a single really long token. There is no way for a state transition to occur.

In that scenario, it's better to break up word tokens, whitespace, etc. so that when the parser gets to a "%" character (assumer we're in an ASP block), it is about to start a new token on the "%" character and at that point will look for state transitions. Make a little better sense?

Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying, but can't seem to implement a workable solution. I have tried adding a StateTransition, but can't get that to work.

A good example is to use the C# Sample Editor Application, which ships with SyntaxEditor. It is the one accessed via Language -&gt; Dynamically Create -&gt; option 2 (using &lt;% %&gt; ).

Please can you tell me how to modify the 2 xml files to get the following text to display correctly:

&lt;!-- This is a &lt;% This is NOT ok %&gt; comment --&gt;
&lt;parser version="1.0"&gt;&lt;% This is ok %&gt;

Many thanks for any help you are able to offer.
Gareth.

Ok using that sample, to get the transition to work in a comment, you have to do a couple things.

First, in the XML language definition, right now the CommentDefaultToken spans the entire range of the comment and only breaks on a "-" character. You need to update the line in the def to include the "&lt;" character like this:
&lt;RegexPatternGroup Token="CommentDefaultToken" PatternValue="[^\-&lt;]+" /&gt;

Also, in the CreateDirectiveXmlToCSharpLanguage method, you need to add another line under this one:
language.LexicalStates["DefaultState"].ChildLexicalStates.Insert(0, lexicalState);

The line to add is:
language.LexicalStates["CommentState"].ChildLexicalStates.Insert(0, lexicalState);

If you do those two changes, it works in comments.

Fantastic! Works a treat. Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Gareth.