Search specific text in syntax editor without using editor search view.

Hello,

If you store the TextSnapshotRange that contains your search result with each item in your grid, then all you have to do is this:

editor.ActiveView.Selection.SelectRange(resultSnapshotRange.TranslateTo(editor.ActiveView.CurrentSnapshot, TextRangeTrackingModes.Default).TextRange);
editor.Focus();

Hi,

Can you explain what TextSnapshotRange is? Currently, the results in grid only have the line number in SyntaxEditor and the found texts. How can I highlight the result in SyntaxEditor?

For example, if I search the word "main" in SyntaxEditor without using EditorSearchView

Search results:

Line 11   constfunction main

Hello,

A TextSnapshot is a "snapshot" of a document at a given point in time, meaning the full text of how it looked at that time.  A TextSnapshotRange is an offset/length range within a TextSnapshot.  As edits occur, new snapshots are created and you can translate offsets between snapshots.  Meaning if an insert edit occured above an offset, then that offset translated to a later snapshot will be increased a bit to compensate.

The SyntaxEditor.EditorViewSearch method gives you an e.ResultSet, which is a set of ISearchResult objects.  Each ISearchResult has TextSnapshotRanges for the found (and replaced) text.  It's just that in find result list boxes, we normally only show the line,char and text.  But in our SearchFindResults sample, you can see how we store the result set and then use that on double clicks to know where to go. 

Hi,

I don't implement the EditorSearchView in the view. I implement the logic to search the result and it return some results like this one:

Line 11 constfunction main

1. How can I use this result to highligh the text in SyntaxEditor?

2. Or is there any way that I can store the result to the result set of the current SyntaxEditor?

I know we can highlight specific word in SyntaxEditor. Is it possible to implement it in my situation? Please provide a coding example.

http://blog.actiprosoftware.com/post/2009/11/30/Call-for-early-SyntaxEditor-for-WPF-20092-testers

Thanks,

Code like this would select the fourth line in its entirety.

editor.ActiveView.Selection.SelectRange(editor.ActiveView.CurrentSnapshot.Lines[3].TextRange);

You can alter the range to be whatever you like.  Note that the above "selects" the text.

For the other questions, SyntaxEditor itself doesn't really store a result set.

Classification taggers can change (and override) the actuall highlighting of text.  Our samples show several examples of that in the various Adornments QuickStarts.  Please check those out.

Thanks, it works. Last question, how can I set the cursor to the result line as well? 

Hello,

The cursor is effectively the end offset of the selection.  So as long as the view is focused, the cursor will be at the end of whatever range you select in SelectRange, which could be a zero-length range too.

Any coding example?

Selecting text is a one line operation and sample code is given in previous replies in this thread.  If you mean for using classification taggers to alter default syntax highlighting, we give examples of that in the samples that come with the product as mentioned above.

What specifically are you looking for that isn't in one of those?

Sorry for not clarify the question. It was a typo.

Is there any way to select the specific characters in the line without the ISearchResultSet object.

For instance:

My search term is "ma"

Search result is "Line 11 constfunction main"

I want to highlight the "ma" in constfunction main only instead of the whole line.

Thanks,

Hello, I guess I need clarification on the terminology you are using.  If you mean to just select "ma" as if you selected with the mouse, you would do something like:

editor.ActiveView.Selection.SelectRange(editor.ActiveView.CurrentSnapshot.Lines[12].StartOffset + 
 characterCountToMa, maLength);

Where characterCountToMa is how many characters in from the start of the line 'ma' starts at.  And maLength would be 2 characters.

If on the other hand you mean highlighting by affecting syntax highlighting, and NOT doing selection, then that is where you'd have to use a classification tagger like in our samples.

Thank you. You're very supportive.