Lexer Folding Function Information

[RaptorX]

Hi guys...

I am kind of new to the whole scintilla thing and I have been working on creating a lexer of my own and so on.

Now, I have noticed that you can set up a function for folding but while testing by adding a scintilla control I have noticed that it looks like i will have to do the folding on my container code, as in adding markers or setting folding levels manually which I though was handled by the Folding function.

Is there anything I am supposed to do to tell scintilla to use the internal folder function instead of writing my lexer routines in the container all over again?

Thanks in advance for your information.

[Neil Hodgson]

RaptorX:

> I am kind of new to the whole scintilla thing and I have been working on creating a lexer of my own and so on.
> Now, I have noticed that you can set up a function for folding but while testing by adding a scintilla control I have noticed that it looks like i will have to do the folding on my container code, as in adding markers or setting folding levels manually which I though was handled by the Folding function.

The folder just sets the fold level of each line. Turn on line numbers and call SCI_SETFOLDFLAGS(SC_FOLDFLAG_LEVELNUMBERS) to see if the fold levels are being set.

Your container has to do all the work of responding to margin clicks and requests to show lines. Copy SciTE's implementation.

Neil

[RaptorX]

Ok thanks for the info.

Is anyone working on the documentation of scintilla? I think it can be greatly improved by adding more clear examples for some of the most common scintilla tasks.
and things like this as well. I am sure a lot of people use scintilla because of its Lexing / Folding capabilities but the examples have proven to be very obscure some times (specially for beginners)

If there is no one working on that i can volunteer myself... I guess I can learn more about it if I start writing examples of how to use it :P

[Neil Hodgson]

RaptorX:

> Is anyone working on the documentation of scintilla?

There are additions when new features are added but no effort to improve the overall quality.

Neil