SyntaxEditor highlighting background of substrings

Hi Daniel,

Can you provide some more detailed information on your request?  Please make some mockup screenshots that show what you are trying to achieve and that would probably be most helpful.  You can link to them in a reply here, or if you would prefer, start a support ticket and you can attach the screenshots there.  If you do create a separate support ticket, reference this thread in your e-mail.  Thanks!

Hi,

I did something similar for a normal TextBlock using Inlines and Runs.

  txtBlock.Inlines.AddRange(new Inline[] {
                    new Run(text.Substring(0, index)),
                    new Run(text.Substring(index, highlightText.Length))
                        {
                            Background = highlightColor,
                            Foreground = foregroundColor
                        }
                });

For example in this code snippet I can change the foreground color and also the background color for that substring. I saw that I need to create my own language for the syntax editor and I think I am able to change the foreground text for some specific words but I was wondering if I can change the background also.

Kind regads,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Yes, the SyntaxEditor highlighting styles support changing foreground, background, bold, italic, underline, etc.  In general if you are doing syntax highlighting, you want to make a lexer that will tokenize the code being edited in the SyntaxEditor.  Each token gets assigned a classification type that identifies the kind of thing represented by the token (e.g. keyword, comment).  And each classification type can have a highlighting style registered for it, so that syntax highlighting is applied for tokens using that classification type.  Background alterations can be part of that highlighting style.