QCodeEdit

[fullmetalcoder]

I would like to try out the latest version of QCodeEdit as I am programming a source editor for some custom language.
I started with a QTextEdit, added a QSyntaxHighlighter and wanted to have line-numbers and later syntax completion and icons on the line-number-gutter. I just started a own editor based on QTextEdit and using various Qt editors as a base how to implement a gutter etc.

Sadly I cannot compile your source as the *.pro file is missing in ./src/lib/qcodeedit/ or do you have a separate SVN repository for QCodeEdit?

QCodeEdit is a componnent and when released as is it contains a pro file to compile it as a static or shared lib. However I thought it would be absolutely useless to keep this pro file in Edyuk repositories and packages. Instead I split the pro files into : a wrapper .pro that's quite simple and distributed only in QCodeEdit packages and a .pri file (PRoject Include) which has to be included in your project via the include() function...

If you want to start playing with QCodeEdit I really recommend to use the iclude() function at first because it will spare you the pain of compiling an lib and then linking your app to it... However if you need a sample pro file to build and install QCodeEdit as a regular lib on your system : just ask me, I'll craft you one in a few minutes...

You could look at the Katepart language definitions. Personally I dislike some of their syntax (some XML elements start with a lowercase char, some with uppercase...; some of the rules are overdefined, e.g. matching a decimal/hex/... can be done with a regexp instead too). But what you could add support for a context stack (or isn't this needed by your definitions?) and standard colors.

I don't quite understand your last sentence...

I would prefer the way Katepart solves this: They define some standard colors (keyword, comment, decimal, hex, float, ...). The user (programmer) can then set the colors and styles for these. In the syntax definition file you would allow to set a color or to use one of these placeholders. Then QCodeEdit would init the associated colors with some defaults the programmer can overwrite at any point with other values.
You could also extend this to letting the syntax definition define the placeholder-names and offer a way for the programmer to get a list of names and build a config dialog for the user to set the colors.

Yep! I got to do it that way but unfortunately I'm ATM kept rather busy by the developpment of Edyuk and such improvements will have to wait a bit.