I had some more free time to work on JSyntaxPane. I did some refactoring, that should not change the way to use it though.
Refactoring was done by creating a new SyntaxDocument to store the Tokens, instead of having the SyntaxView store them. The former way was actually very stupid!
The Document should know about its own tokens, and the View gets the tokens from the Document. That is how it is done now. And this way you can also retrieve data about the SyntaxDocument by knowing its EditorPane control. And no need for listeners!
The new SyntaxDocument also has built in undo and redo.
A new class SyntaxActions was also created with several useful TextActions thrown in. These include Smart and Java Indentation, and mapping the TAB / Shift-TAB to indent / unindent the selected lines. Also mapped the default undo / redo keys to behave properly.
I also modified the Test application, and now it will display the token details under the cursor. This is very helpful for debugging the lexers.
Also changed is the way Fonts are used. Now the font of the Component is used, and you can only change the style (bold/italic) and color. Which means that the entire EditorPane will have one single font face and size. This actually suites my taste, unlike
Notepad++ which by default uses different fonts and sizes for comments.
Again, all you need to do is one line to set the EditorKit. All the above is done for you automatically.
Have a look at the Test Application using Java WebStart
here. Java 1.5+ is needed.
Project home is on Google Code
here.
Hmm.. what next? Scripting? Nah.. I'm probably done, for now. I needed a simple control to edit scripts in my Java Swing applications, and thats probably it. unless...