Class: SyntaxHighlighter2

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • api highlighting
  • highlighting
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • initialization
  • parsing-expressions
  • syntax detection

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Scanner
      |
      +--Parser
         |
         +--AbstractSyntaxHighlighter
            |
            +--SyntaxHighlighter
               |
               +--SyntaxHighlighter2

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Interface-CodeView-Syntax

Version:

rev: 1.32 date: 2018/08/04 17:02:16

user: cg

file: SyntaxHighlighter2.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Description:

A slightly improved syntax highlighter.

In addition to the inherited colorization, this one also remembers
so called 'syntax elements' (variable tokens and selectors) and remembers
them in a list.
This can be later used by the codeView to highlight uses of a clicked-on
variable or a clicked-on selector.
Also this list could (but is not, at the moment) be used to forward/backward
search for the next use of some variable.

[caveat:]
    This code has a smell: there is a lot of code duplication,
    and most can be moved to the superclass. Actually, there is propably no
    reason to have both classes around, so why not integrate all into the superclass.

Class protocol:

 formatClassDefinition: aString in: aClass elementsInto: elements

format (recolor) a class definition expression in a given class.
Return the text containing font changes and color information.

 formatExpression: aString in: aClass elementsInto: elements

format (recolor) an expression in a given class.
Return the text containing font changes and color information.

usage example(s):

self formatExpression:'(1 + 2) max:5' in:UndefinedObject

 formatMethod: aMethodOrNil source: aString in: aClass using: preferencesOrNil elementsInto: elements

format (recolor) a method in a given class.
Return the text containing font changes and color information.

usage example(s):

self formatMethod:'foo ^ self bar:''hello''. ' , (Character doubleQuote asString) , 'some comment' , (Character doubleQuote asString) , ' ' in:UndefinedObject

 format: aString parsingWith: aBlock in: aClass elementsInto: elements

common code for formatStatementList, formatExpression, ...
format (recolor) whatever is parsed in aBlock (within the context of a given class).
Return the text containing font changes and color information.
As a side effect, put syntax elements into the passed in elements container
(for element-highlighting in codeView2)

 formatStatementList: aString in: aClass elementsInto: elements

format (recolor) a statement list in a given class.
Return the text containing font changes and color information.

usage example(s):

self formatStatementList:'(1 + 2) max:5. 1 + 2' in:UndefinedObject elementsInto:(OrderedCollection new).

Instance protocol:

 elements

 elements: aParseTreeIndexCollection

the element collection, to collect variables, selectors etc. into

 tree: aParseNode

(comment from inherited method)
private: set the tree - for internal use only

 initialize

must be called if redefined

 _binaryExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a binary-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error

 _keywordExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a keyword-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error.

keywordExpression ::= binaryexpression
| { KEYWORD-PART binaryExpression }

 _unaryExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a unary-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error

 binaryExpression

(comment from inherited method)
parse a binary-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error

 binaryExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a binary-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error

 expression

(comment from inherited method)
parse a cascade-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error.

expression ::= keywordExpression
| keywordExpression cascade

cascade ::= ';' expressionSendPart
| cascade ';' expressionSendPart

expressionSendPart ::= { KEYWORD binaryExpression }
| BINARYOPERATOR unaryExpression
| IDENTIFIER

 keywordExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a keyword-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error.

keywordExpression ::= binaryexpression
| { KEYWORD-PART binaryExpression }

 unaryExpressionFor: receiverArg

parse a unary-expression; return a node-tree, nil or #Error

 markBlockArgumentIdentifierFrom: pos1 to: pos2

in addition to marking, remember the variable reference

 markLocalVariableDeclaration: name from: pos1 to: pos2

in addition to marking, remember the variable reference

 markMethodArgumentIdentifierFrom: pos1 to: pos2

in addition to marking, remember the variable reference

 markSelector: selectorString from: pos1 to: pos2 receiverNode: aReceiverNode

Special hack for Java class references - I would like to have them
marked specially (and not as an error when the class is not yet loaded -
the code is correct as JavaClassAccessor loads it lazily

 markSelfFrom: pos1 to: pos2

in addition to marking, remember the variable reference

 markSuperFrom: pos1 to: pos2

in addition to marking, remember the variable reference

 markUnknownIdentifierFrom: pos1 to: pos2

 markVariable: v from: pos1 to: pos2 assigned: assigned

(comment from inherited method)
support for syntaxColoring

 rememberVariableElementFor: node from: pos1 to: pos2 assigned: assigned

node block