TSynEdit: Highlighter fold and color at the same time

[Dzandaa]

Hi, everybody,

New to TSynedit creation:

I want to write a custom TSynEdit for personal data editing.

I use a TSynEdit in my form and I want to have a color Highlighter and a fold Highlighter at the same time when writing.

For example: when I tape a Keyword for folding, I also want then the text color change.

Any Idea, thank you.

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[Martin_fr]

https://wiki.freepascal.org/SynEdit_Highlighter
And there are demo sources for a new highlighter in the examples folder.

Mind you, for 5.0 there are quite some changes. They will require a few updates (but mostly simple to make, like renaming).

Also in 5.0 some docs have been added:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/main/components/lazedit/docs?ref_type=heads

And the above examples have been updated (and maybe a bit improved)
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/main/examples/SynEdit/NewHighlighterTutorial?ref_type=heads

[Martin_fr]

For example: when I tape a Keyword for folding, I also want then the text color change.

Not a problem....

Well, once you got through the tutorial, and have your own highlighter.

In "GetTokenAttribute" you can check for the "TopCodeFoldBlockType" and return a different attribute. You just need to have as many attributes as you need colors.

(You can search the sql highlighter for TopCodeFoldBlockType)

[Edson]

I use a TSynEdit in my form and I want to have a color Highlighter and a fold Highlighter at the same time when writing.

For example: when I tape a Keyword for folding, I also want then the text color change.

Any Idea, thank you.

SynFacilSyn (https://github.com/t-edson/SynFacilSyn) is a configurable SynEdit highlighter and can do syntax highlighting and folding too. There are some samples in the Github.

I haven't tested in the last Lazarus versions  but I think it is OK.