Component for custom syntax highlighting

Aneal_Chandra · 2 September 2022 01:50

Hi all,
I’m writing a build system converter, which takes semi-automatically parses a bespoke undocumented system (written in Lua) and converts/configures/builds it in CMake, Meson, etc.

I’m thinking a nice feature would be the ability to have some custom source language-specific fomatting, similar to those supported in Notepad++, VSCode and so on.

I found this for QT but am a bit shy (aka lazy) when it comes to translating others code if someone has already done it

github.com

KDE/syntax-highlighting/blob/master/src/cli/kate-syntax-highlighter.cpp

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>

    SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
*/

#include "ksyntaxhighlighting_version.h"

#include <KSyntaxHighlighting/Definition>
#include <KSyntaxHighlighting/DefinitionDownloader>
#include <KSyntaxHighlighting/Repository>
#include <KSyntaxHighlighting/Theme>
#include <ansihighlighter.h>
#include <htmlhighlighter.h>

#include <QCommandLineParser>
#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <QFile>

#include <iostream>

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I also note that TMS’s TADvMemo and TAdvSQLMemoStyler component does do a few file formats but I doubt that it does Lua/CMake

So just wondering if anyone has any idea how to solve the issue of viewing Lua/CMake/other file formats in Delphi’s FMX framework?
Cheers
Aneal

Paul_McGee · 2 September 2022 05:13

Synedit does syntax highlighting … can you use that or look at the highlighting files … ?

This is the file for Pascal … SynEdit/SynHighlighterPas.pas at master · SynEdit/SynEdit · GitHub

and people seem to have had a crack at Lua …

Perhaps best → luaedit/LuaSyntax.pas at master · luaforge/luaedit · GitHub

Paul_McGee · 2 September 2022 05:40

I can’t see a cmake highlight file, but there is SynGen for creating a highlighter from provided information …

https://pmcgee69.github.io/Highlighters-HowTo.html

Aneal_Chandra · 5 September 2022 01:25

Thanks Paul
I might investigate this, but it’s a nice-to-have feature only. In any case, I’ll need to get my head around the build systems syntax first.

After reviewing a few of these videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK6MXr8gasrGmIiSuVQXpfFuE1uPT615s I’m beginning to realise how lucky us Rad Studio users have been with the easy to use Delphi-style GUI project manager Window and easy to read .*proj files