Adv. TextBox

[Jay1b]

I am trying to write a program that does the following.

 

-Colour in key words blue, such as IF and ENDIF.

-Draw vertical lines on the text matching up each IF and ENDIF. These vertical lines should be drawn automatically, and should stay in place when the user scrolls.

 

ie:

 

IF 1 = 1 THEN

| message 'Durr';

| i = i + 1;

| etc..........

ENDIF;

 

This formatting shouldnt be saved into the textfile, but should be drawn on top of it afterwards.

 

Firstly, am i talking sense?

Secondly - If above = true, then could someone point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks

[mutant]

Syntax coloring is not hard to implement using Regular Expressions. You only have two keywords so it shuldn't be a problem.

For your vetical lines, if you wish to use this character: | then searching for THEN and NewLine might do what you want, you can for example replace it with THEN, NewLine and |.

[Jay1b]

i dont want that character, i was just using it as an example. I dont want any character, just a line to be drawn on top of the code.

 

Sometimes i have to edit code, which can have 5/6 embedded if statements, some times whilst editing this code i print it out and manually drawn lines between the indentation of the IF/while/loop statements - to show which ones join up with which.