Read and Write LexicalState

Hi Ryan,

Check out the DynamicallyCreateForm source code in the sample project. That shows some modification of the dynamic languages. You must make sure you set your language's IsUpdating = true before you change anything and set it to false afterwards.

Everything in the dynamic languages is an object model structure. So you can enumerate through your language's LexicalStates collection to look for one with the Key for your default style. Then once found, enumerate that lexical state's LexicalPatternGroups collection and look at each LexicalPatternGroup.TokenKey to find the one you want.

I can get through the states but can not get to the patterns. Below is what I have been testing with. I would like to be able to add test3 to the group and remove test2.

Dim i As Integer
Dim States As LexicalStateCollection
Dim ChildLexicalStates As LexicalStateCollection
Dim LexicalScopes As LexicalScopeCollection

States = editor.Document.Language.LexicalStates
LexicalScopes = States.Item(1).LexicalScopes
ChildLexicalStates = States.Item(1).ChildLexicalStates
Console.WriteLine(States.Item(1).DefaultTokenKey)
Console.WriteLine(States.Item(1).Key)
Console.WriteLine(LexicalScopes.Item(0))

For i = 0 To States.Count - 1
Console.WriteLine(States.Item(i).DefaultTokenKey)
Console.WriteLine(States.Item(i).Key)
Next i

XML Pattern
<ExplicitPatternGroup TokenKey="Mycode Token" Style="Mycodes" LookBehind="^|[^\.]" LookAhead="{NonWordMacro}|\z" CaseSensitivity="AutoCorrect">
<ExplicitPatterns>
Test1 Test2
</ExplicitPatterns>
</ExplicitPatternGroup>

Please make sure you read through what I had previously replied to you. Each DynamicLexicalState has a LexicalPatternGroups collection on it. You can enumerate that collection and look for the LexicalPatternGroup item with the TokenKey="Mycode Token". LexicalPatternGroup itself is a collection. So you can enumerate through it to look for the LexicalPattern with Pattern="test2" and remove that one. Then add a new LexicalPattern with Pattern="test3".