custom syntax highlighting [JS]

[Claudia Frank]

Yes, in langs.xml add a new keywords tag with your keywords.

Cheers
Claudia

[Wolf War]

@Claudia-Frank
hmm I tried but without luck

[Claudia Frank]

Hello @Wolf-War,

as an example what I have done for python

in langs.xml

    <Language name="python" ext="py pyw" commentLine="#">
        <Keywords name="instre1">and as assert break class continue def del elif else except exec False finally for from global if import in is lambda None not or pass print raise return True try while with yield</Keywords>
        <Keywords name="instre2">editor editor1 editor2 notepad console</Keywords>
    </Language>

I added the a second keywords tag and named it instre2 with a given list of keywords.

In Dark2012.xml (the theme that I use) I modified

    <LexerType name="python" desc="Python" ext="">
        <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" styleID="0" fgColor="C8C8C8" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="COMMENTLINE" styleID="1" fgColor="57A64A" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="NUMBER" styleID="2" fgColor="BD63C5" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="STRING" styleID="3" fgColor="D69D85" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="CHARACTER" styleID="4" fgColor="D69D85" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS" styleID="5" fgColor="367DC6" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" keywordClass="instre1" />
        <WordsStyle name="TRIPLE" styleID="6" fgColor="C8C8C8" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="TRIPLEDOUBLE" styleID="7" fgColor="C8C8C8" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="CLASSNAME" styleID="8" fgColor="8080FF" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="DEFNAME" styleID="9" fgColor="8080FF" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="OPERATOR" styleID="10" fgColor="FF8000" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="IDENTIFIER" styleID="11" fgColor="8DA6CE" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="COMMENTBLOCK" styleID="12" fgColor="57A64A" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="DECORATOR" styleID="13" fgColor="D69D85" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
        <WordsStyle name="USERDEFINED" styleID="14" fgColor="D69D85" bgColor="1E1E1E" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" keywordClass="instre2"/>
    </LexerType>

the lexertype tag by adding a new word style with name USERDEFINED (can be any other name), styleID=14 (which was the next in row)
and added keywordClass=“instre2” to reflect the changes in langs.xml.

Did you do the same?

Cheers
Claudia

[Wolf War]

@Claudia-Frank
thanx for your effort
yes, I did that but in actual code there is not effect
in Style Configurator everything is recognized (MY_KEYWORDS) but the words are not colored (green)

[Claudia Frank]

@Wolf-War
can you point me to the location from where you’ve downloaded the waher style?
I would give it a try to test and see what the problem is.

Cheers
Claudia

[Wolf War]

@Claudia-Frank
I’m not sure where I download it from, long time ago
but here is the file that I’m using (uploaded to Gdrive)

[Claudia Frank]

@Wolf-War

you are right, it doesn’t work with javascript.
First I tried my python changes, which worked fine but changing the same for javascript doesn’t work.
As you said, we are seeing the new keywords but different coloring doesn’t happen.

Need to investigate this.

Cheers
Claudia

[Wolf War]

@Claudia-Frank
thank you for confirming this

[Claudia Frank]

@Wolf-War

ok, short answer, javascript doesn’t support it.

Longer answer javascript doesn’t support all keyword class names, which would be

• instre1
• instre2
• type1
• type2
• type3
• type4
• type5

It only supports instre1, instre2 and type1 - hardcoded in source (),
the same applies to the styles names like number, word, keyword …
You can define a new style name but it never gets used.

Beside this, waher.xml has to name it javascript.js

<LexerType name="javascript.js" desc="JavaScript" ext="">

as javascript has become the embedded one.

Cheers
Claudia

[Wolf War]

@Claudia-Frank
ok, tnx again
at least I didn’t screw it :)
cheers