CVSI Colorizer

[Jonathon Rossi]

I have nearly finished the NVelocity colorizer I have been working on and I thought I’d let everyone see what I have so far. I am sure there is still syntax that I have missed. Once I fix up a few things, mainly errors and support for more than one file open at a time, I’ll upload it so anyone can take it for a test drive.

 

I’d like to hear anyone’s feedback or suggestions from what you can see in the screenshot:

http://www.jonorossi.com/upload/2007/CVSIColorizer.png

 

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

[Ken Egozi]

looks supercool.

Almost making me wish I've used NV ...

Hopefully will help increasing the adoption of MR

 

[Freyr Magnússon]

This is looking mighty fine.  I look forward to using this extension.

Will it be possible to configure color for methods different from the calling object like resharper does by default?

keep up the good work,

regards,
Freyr

On 5/9/07, Jonathon Rossi <jo...@jonorossi.com> wrote:

[Jonathon Rossi]

Thanks. Reducing the learning curve of MR is one reason I am doing this.

 

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

[Jonathon Rossi]

Thanks, I hope many people will use it.

 

I will consider making the method names a different colour to the object. Do you have a suggestion as to what colour would look alright?

 

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

From: castle-pro...@googlegroups.com [mailto:castle-pro...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Freyr Magnússon
Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 7:05 PM
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This is looking mighty fine.  I look forward to using this extension.

[Diego Guidi]

Looks simply wonderful!

[freyr.m...@gmail.com]

Hi,

ReSharper uses a dark green color for the methods and purple for
variables by default. I guess most would expect the coloring to
follow VS defaults but to be able to customize it to behave like
resharper or some other tool would be brilliant.

regards,
Freyr

[Jonathon Rossi]

I think I'll leave it as it is for now and consider it in the near future
when people start to use it. Getting it supporting all the syntax correctly
is my first priority. However, anymore feedback is welcome even if you don't
think it is very important at the moment.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[Kevin Miller]

I gave a talk on Monorail last weekend that included showing people
how to create views using NVelocity. One of the questions I got was
when if there is support for syntax highlighting or better yet
intellisense. I told them about your effort. Just letting you know
there was a room full of people breathlessly anticipating your
tool. :)

[Dru Sellers]

Wow!

[Tim Haines]

Yeah - I'm looking forward to some of that colorization action.

[Jonathon Rossi]

That's cool, people want to use it and it isn't even released. You are
advertising what could be a PhotoShopped image ;), jk, it is real. I should
have it out within the next week, then everyone can start carrying on about
unsupported syntax. Unfortunately, intellisense will be a while down the
road.

@Hammett: not sure if you'll see this but would I be able to use the contrib
project in JIRA for everyone to submit bugs.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[Jonathon Rossi]

It’s nice to see the 2 of you like it too.

 

Tim, the way you wrote that made me crack up laughing.

 

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

From: castle-pro...@googlegroups.com [mailto:castle-pro...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Haines
Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: CVSI Colorizer

 

Yeah - I'm looking forward to some of that colorization action.

[Hamilton Verissimo]

Is it going to be open source?

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[Jonathon Rossi]

Yes it will be, I would like to put it up on the castle contrib, it would be
pointless keeping it closed source.

However, once I put it on castle contrib anyone can make changes which is a
good thing but it will make it hard for me to document work I have done
since this is my final year uni project. I have noticed with ActiveWriter
that only Gokhan Altinoren applies any patches contributed, would it be
possible to work in the same arrangement. The other reason is that I need to
fulfil the requirements I define in my documentation so I need to be in
control of the project.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[Hamilton Verissimo]

Seems fine as long as this model doesn't last forever. It doesn't seem
to fit with the open source spirit. But every project has its
dynamics. I think your project will be fairly complex, so people won't
touch it :-)

[Jonathon Rossi]

Once the project is finished for my uni work I have no problem leaving that
model. I see your point, it is like read-only open source. It sure is
complex, once more VS features are built in later on the VS stuff would be
hard for most developers to understand. However, since I have built a new
NVelocity scanner and will build a parser soon the project could be used to
replace the current NVelocity. It could be used to build new features since
the current codebase is very hard to change. I was even considering building
a compiler so NVelocity is more like Brail.

[Hamilton Verissimo]

Wow! Interesting!

[Gökhan Altınören]

I think any committer in contrib can update any project in it (not 100% sure). Ayende, for example, sent a patch to me rather than applying. Other patches I get were from people outside of castle project. So people are kind to keep you in the middle and noticed.

[Hamilton Verissimo]

On 5/10/07, Gökhan Altınören <gok...@altinoren.com> wrote:
> I think any committer in contrib can update any project in it (not 100%
> sure).

That is correct.

[Jonathon Rossi]

I'll just have to watch for people committing into that directory, it won't
be the end of the world. However, I doubt anyone unfamiliar with the code
base would just commit anything anyway.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[Jonathon Rossi]

Thanks. So I assume you like the idea of an NVelocity compiler. I'll discuss
what I had planed at a later date when the parser is done. It will be good
to be able to add new syntax.

[craiggwilson]

Are you building the scanner/parser by hand? I recently found
CSharpCC, a (semi)port of JavaCC that acts kinda like antlr or some
other compiler compiler, except there are no external dependencies
like antlr requires.. Anyhow, it only applies to an LL(k) grammar, as
opposed to an LALR, but since Velocity uses JavaCC, it would seem that
the velocity template language is an LL(k) grammar anyhow.
Regardless, just thought it might be helpful.

On May 10, 9:24 am, "Jonathon Rossi" <j...@jonorossi.com> wrote:
> Thanks. So I assume you like the idea of an NVelocity compiler. I'll discuss
> what I had planed at a later date when the parser is done. It will be good
> to be able to add new syntax.
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> Regards, Jonathon Rossi
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[Jonathon Rossi]

Thanks for that info.

Since the scanner I built scans XHTML as well, it is pretty complex so I
didn't have much choice then to write it by hand. I also needed a line
scanner for VS which I have built into the same scanner.

I haven't decided if I will build the parser by hand or use a tool, I was
considering using GPPG, it was written by my project's supervisor so I can
complain to him if there is problems. One reason I was considering hand
writing it is that the parser should understand XHTML so that I can build
intellisense for XHTML, but also be able to disable the XHTML parser part if
the parser is used for execution.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[Kunle Odutola]

Private branch?.

Kunle

PS You might want to look at svk if Contrib and "private branch" don't
mix.

PPS You can add my "Wow!" to your growing list. ;-)

[Stuart Carnie]

Interesting - I am considering rewriting NVelocity's parser as a side
project. My preference is also GPPG. We are using NVelocity as our
template engine for a commercial project, and I'm terribly disturbed
by the JavaCC implementation. Specifically the use of exceptions to
communicate state of the byte stream, rather than a simple Eof
property. One of our templates generates over 8000 exceptions, so it
is horribly slow and even worse in the debugger.

Perhaps there is some possibility of collaboration; however I notice
you are doing it for a uni project and will also be integrating HTML
parsing, which is not appropriate at the NVelocity engine level.
Perhaps we have share some initial translation of the NV grammar.

Cheers,

Stu

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[Sean Chambers]

Jonathan,

This is great! I was just thinking to myself today how great it would
be to have syntax highlighting.

Can't wait!

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[Jonathon Rossi]

Thanks. You won't have to wait long.

Regards, Jonathon Rossi

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[bch...@gmail.com]

can't wait for you to release this!