[QScintilla] Trying to set different color for different set of keywords in QsciLexerCPP

[Jonas O.]

Now I'm sad.

How can I use keywordset2 to use a different set of keywords then ?

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 21:10, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:44:27 +0100, "Jonas O." <ezjonas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 19:04, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:38:12 +0100, "Jonas O." <ezjonas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> Hello, and first thanks for bringing Scintilla to Qt ! I'm quite happy
>>>> to see all those nifty features made that much simple to implement
>>>> (current line highlight, margin numbers, select line form left click
>>>> in the margin, etc).
>>>>
>>>> However I'm having one little problem, I want to color some keyword
>>>> sets with a different than other keyword sets.
>>>> I created my own lexer by duplicating the QsciLexerCPP files, but I
>>>> need some starting point to see how I can do that; the SendScintilla
>>>> function is not very documented and does not forward to any scintilla
>>>> doc (I also read it's useless to ask here to learn how to create a
>>>> lexer, but I just want to color certain separately, not create my own
>>>> language).
>>>>
>>>> I hope someone could help me at least a little, I guess someone have
>>>> to know how to do it, the creator of QScintilla maybe ? The QScintilla
>>>> lexer classes did not appear magically...
>>>
>>> You don't need to create a new lexer - just subclass QsciLexerCPP and
>>> reimplement the keywords() method to handle the case where the keyword
>>> set
>>> is 2 (see QsciLexerCPP::KeywordSet2). You need to return a string for
>>> set 2
>>> containing the keywords you want coloured differently. If some of these
>>> appear in the default set 1 then you will also need to handle that set
> by
>>> returning a string that doesn't contain those keywords.
>>>
>>> You may also want to reimplement defaultColor(), defaultFont() etc. to
>>> provide different defaults for the KeywordSet2 style.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>
>> I see, but I want to create several sets with each one having a
>> different color, the set 2 will only give me one color, how can it
>> select a different color for each set ?
>
> The underlying Scintilla C++ lexer only supports a limited number of
> keyword sets. You will need to modify that (or take a copy) to add support
> for more.
>
> Phil
>