How to tell core editor to color specific lines?

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Prashant Deva - 30 Jun 2004 22:00 GMT

The VSIP docs say that in a language service(NOT using babel) ,"The core
editor calls IVsColorizer::ColorizeLine to request that a particular span of
text be colorized."

But the problem comes when the change of 1 character in a single line can
affect the color of many lines.

How do i tell the editor, to paint the specific lines i want it to?

Eg- comments. If i put '/*' at the begining of a line,how do i tell
the editor to change the color of rest of the lines to say, green?

Its strange how the VSIP docs dont give any info about such a major thing.

PRASHANT

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Dmitry Shaporenkov - 01 Jul 2004 08:16 GMT

Prashant,

I suspect you can use text markers for what you're trying to do. Take a look
at
IVsTextStreamMarker interface and related APIs.

> The VSIP docs say that in a language service(NOT using babel) ,"The core
> editor calls IVsColorizer::ColorizeLine to request that a particular span of
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> PRASHANT

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"Ed Dore [MSFT]" - 08 Jul 2004 23:36 GMT

To follow up on Dmitry's response. The documentation for implementing
custom markers, is pretty much non-existant. Though the doc team is working
to fix this for the Whidbey VSIP docs. There are some details in the Dr. Ex
blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dr._ex/ which contains some of the missing
information.

I have a rudimentary implementation in C#, and will hopefully get it
finished and uploaded to the VS extensibility site in the not to distant
future. In the meantime, if you'd like a copy (it's still a work in
progress), just email me (minus the "online."), and I'd be more than happy
to provide you with what I've pulled together so far.

Sincerely,
Ed Dore [MSFT]

This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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