I am trying to highlight syntaxes using actionscript 3.0 . Are there helpful resources available, that can guide me through the process.
Thanks.
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No, the demo is highlighting for finding the word.
Need something as follow in the image ( circled with red )
syntax-higlighting
Well ... did you actually have a look at the code?
The author uses a Finder Class to find areas to hightlight and uses a Highlighter Class to do the actual Hightlighting.
So starting with that example, you would have to model your syntax highliting with these lasses ... one to find out what schould be highlighted and one actually doing it.
well, I just viewed the knowledge base, that have some threads related to creating an editor ( that may show intellisense). It talks something about regex. I think that's more suitable.
@ChristoferDutz - Using finding methods, to create syntax highlighter function , the actionscript would just halt the player. As i would need to refresh it every second ( or even millissecond ). Don't you think so ?
Can anyone help me, how regex can be used in better way for actionscript. My main concern is about refreshing it every moment, that may hang the player. So i need a solution that takes care of this concern.
Hello Vigus. If you are talking talking about having textfields or any other text containers, then actually the right way to do it is to change the colour of the text which needs to be highlighted, this way the text will be automatically "refreshed" by the Flash Player itself and you do not have to worry about every second or every millisecond issue. Just change the colour accordingly and the text is highlighted according to the syntax.
Yes you can use regular expressions to search for the words you actually want to highlight, then you replace the words with a format and change the colour. You might want to use htmlText or generate new text fields with a different colour.
If you actually have a source file, please upload it to a file sharing site and I can help you from there. If you do not actually have a source yet, please tell me the exact details you want. At least you should try to show me how you want the whole thing to look like.
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by: ChristoferDutzPosted on 2009-11-06 at 01:35:21ID: 25757781
Hi,
there is a demo of some component doing Highliting of text ... mabe it get's you started (The demo has "View Source" enabled):
http://labs.tom-lee.com/Fl
Hope it helps