Fireball.CodeEditor

• FireFX Beta 2 Src- 1.4 mb

For a binary release go at DotNetFireball SourceForge.net page

N.B. For FireEdit source code go at DotNetFireball SourceForge Page

Introduction

Fireball.CodeEditor is an source code editor control derived from the best compona SyntaxBox Control, because compona as recently released it as LGPL, i have imported it on my framework,because imported? because i need to add some changes and solve some issue, example;

BUG: The original source code of the compona don't work on C#, Visual Studio 2005.

FIXED: Fireball.CodeEditor work correctly on C# 2.0 and on Visual Studio 2005 Designer!

Removed some bad try catch statment and replaced with if statment because are more speedly.

BUG: The original compona code, caret don't position correctly on presence of { and (

FIXED: This is a p/invoke issue because C# 2.0 don't work on the same mode as C# 1.0 for p/invoke, i have find this bug simply removing all try catch!

On the Fireball Framework the needed dll's are this Fireball.CodeEditor ( this contains the CodeEditorControl ), Fireball.Windows.Forms ( this contains some widgets use by the CodeEditorControl ),Fireball.SyntaxDocument ( this contain the SyntaxDocument used by the CodeEditorControl) and Fireball.Core! that contains some low level api like GDIObject, it is also present another library the Fireball.CodeEditor.SyntaxFiles this is only a utils library that contains some standard syntax files for common programming languages and a class for fast loading this.

Background

On this article i explain the basic usage of this control, this article article can't cover advanced use of this control, it is only an introduction, i can write more about the CodeEditorControl on the future, for use the example on this article you need to download and compile all libraries, the compile order is this,

1. Fireball.Core
2. Fireball.Windows.Forms
3. Fireball.SyntaxDocument
4. Fireball.CodeEditor
5. Fireball.CodeEditor.SyntaxFiles

Next you can compile the example of this article.

Note: You need to change the build output directory because it set for working with fireball repository structure.

Using the code

N.B The demo illustrated on this article is a really working Fireball application called FireEdit! 

For find a dettailed use of this libraries you can see the code, next i put some line of that illustrate the use of CodeEditorControl.

Adding an istance of CodeEditorControl to your form is very simple, you need only to add to your toolbox the Fireball.CodeEditor.dll, or you can also istance it manualy with this lines of code.

...
using Fireball.Windows.Forms; // Where is located CodeEditorControl class
using Fireball.Syntax; // Where is located SyntaxDocument class
using Fireball.CodeEditor.SyntaxFiles; // Where is located commons SyntaxFiles


 public class yourclass : Form
 {
     public yourclass()
     {
        CodeEditorControl codeEdit = new CodeEditorControl();
        
        this.Controls.Add(codeEdit );
        
        codeEdit.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

        codeEdit.Document = CodeEditorSyntaxLoader.SetSyntax(codeEdit, SyntaxLanguage.CSharp);        
    }
}

 

You have istanced your own CodeEditor! very simple!!

What is SyntaxLanguage? is an enumeration that contains a list of the common languages, see the enum,

    public enum SyntaxLanguage
    {
        Lang6502 = 0,
        ASP = 1,
        CPP = 2,
        Cobol = 3,
        CSharp = 4,
        CSS = 5,
        DataFlex = 6,
        Delphi = 7,
        DOSBatch = 8,
        Fortran90 = 9,
        FoxPro = 10,
        Java = 11,
        JavaScript = 12,
        JSP = 13,
        LotusScript = 14,
        MSIL = 15,
        MySql_SQL = 16,
        NPath = 17,
        Oracle_SQL = 18,
        Perl = 19,
        PHP = 20,
        Povray = 21,
        Python = 22,
        Rtf = 23,
        SmallTalk = 24,
        SqlServer2K = 25,
        SqlServer7 = 26,
        SystemPolicies = 27,
        Template = 28,
        Text = 29,
        TurboPascal = 30,
        VBNET = 31,
        VB = 32,
        VBScript = 33,
        VRML97 = 34,
        XML = 35,
    }

 

The CodeEditorControl give to you a simple way for implementing a little editor and professional editor, on the control you have some nice commands like clipboard function, Cut, Copy and Paste, the control also can split in multiple views, see the class diagram here
The control also contains some function for text search and replace.

Now you need to see the FireEdit code is more explicative to see code than read an article ;)

If you need more help don't esitate to enter my forum at http://www.dotnetfireball.net, and ask your question.

if you are interested to contribute to the project with producing path, new functionalities or Documentation please contact me on my forum.

Thanks

Thanks to compona.com for have released SyntaxBox as LGPL, and gived to me the possibility to correct it's bug.

History

30/04/2006 - Fixed some bugs, released as beta 2 31/03/2006 - Fixed some bugs, thanks to my users for helping me, coming soon a beta 2 19/02/2006 - Updated with the last version of Fireball Source Code, Fixed an issue with IntelliMouse, now the source code of FireEdit is only available at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/fireedit.asp 14/02/2006 - Fixed an overload error on Fireball.Core GDIBitmap and Fixed a bug TabStrip control. 4/02/2006 - Updated article with zip files and with last version of source code
29/01/2006 - Merged some fixes maked by Roger (Compona) that solve an issue with font assignement and added IME Window for international support
15/01/2006 - Added a new method CenterInView on EditViewControl (Thx to Marcel Isler for contribution), and you now get the Active View with the method ActiveViewControl on CodeEditorControl.

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SelectionError [modified] tigor 13:15 3 Jul '09   Hi, If I select a text and click on this selected text, the unselected text will be removed. Why? How can i change this? //EDIT It was an Failure in my Drag&Drop Code modified on Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:51 PM Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink My vote of 1 craigd 14:53 14 Feb '09   Republishing someone elses code without acknowledgement Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Some words are lower case... tigor 3:48 7 Jan '09   Hi, im German, i hope you understand my question for example, i insert this text (VBNET): Public Class form1 end class why is "end" and "class" after the end in lower case? with "sub" or "function" and some other words its the same. they stay in lower case. but when i insert this text Public Class Form1 Private sub function end sub End Class the "function" will changed to upper case... but "sub" is lower case... how can i change this? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Chinese or Japanese IME Problem Solved helanmouse 2:08 6 Jan '09   Asia-Language IME will cause double KeyPress event. To avoid it, modified 'WndProc' method in EditViewControl.cs to this: protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) { if (m.Msg == (int) WindowMessage.WM_DESTROY) { try { if (FindReplaceDialog != null) FindReplaceDialog.Close(); if (AutoList != null) AutoList.Close(); if (InfoTip != null) InfoTip.Close(); } catch { } } //Deal With IME Problem else if (m.Msg == (int)WindowMessage.WM_IME_CHAR) { int var = m.WParam.ToInt32(); char ch = Convert.ToChar(var); this.InsertText(ch.ToString()); if (this.Indent == IndentStyle.Scope || this.Indent == IndentStyle.Smart) { if (Caret.CurrentRow.ShouldOutdent) { OutdentEndRow(); } } return; } base.WndProc(ref m); } Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink My vote of 1 Pete O'Hanlon 12:23 25 Nov '08   The rip-off nature of this article. Give credit where it's due dude. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 (1 vote) Credit where credit is due Roger Alsing 1:52 12 Jun '08   Since I am the author of this code it would be nice with atleast some credit on this work since the only work provided by you are patches. (OK I was mentioned for a patch) The real code can be found: code.google.com/p/alsing DotNetFireball is pretty much a rogue project that simply renamed every class and file and published as their own. (almost all traces of the source have been removed from their codebase) The original code was written by me and released from my company (Compona) and later published as opensource. Im all OK with branches of my code, no problem, but credits are the pay for OS work. My Blog Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 (9 votes) Re: Credit where credit is due Pete O'Hanlon 12:21 25 Nov '08   Kudos to you then Mr A. Don't you hate it when somebody attempts to hijack your efforts? "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 'correct' link for the _real_ code [modified] craigd 14:52 14 Feb '09   To Roger, the link in your response seems to be missing the http:// it should be SyntaxBox - the REAL source[^] - I mention to ensure future readers of this article find their way to the original source of this code. It seems to me that this is the MINIMUM the author of this article should do, given LGPL says Give prominent notice with the combined library that part of it is a work based on the Library, and explaining where to find the accompanying uncombined form of the same work. To the author, You say: Fireball.CodeEditor is an source code editor control derived from the best compona SyntaxBox Control and Thanks to compona.com for have released SyntaxBox as LGPL, and gived to me the possibility to correct it's bug. but the code you are distributing doesn't acknowledge the original author in the "spirit" of open-source. Worse, you (appear to) purposefully rename and reorganize code to hide it's origin; I made up a word - robfuscation - to describe this. There are dozens (more/most?) classes which are unchanged, except // * Copyright (C) Roger Alsing : http://www.RogerAlsing.com has been replaced by // Copyright (C) Sebastian Faltoni <sebastian@dotnetfireball.net> and namespace Alsing.Windows has been replaced by namespace Fireball.Win32 Further - I don't see the ORIGINAL source linked anywhere... it certainly seems like you (dotnetfireball[^]) are trying to take credit for the entire codebase (not just with this article, but by publishing 'fireball' on codeplex and sourceforge). To claim you built all this from scratch (including the 40 .SYN syntax files) is dishonest - how about restoring the original file headers and crediting the people who did the real work? Not cool, guys. Regards Craig modified on Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:10 AM Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Credit where credit is due Norm .net 22:42 27 Apr '09   Well Roger the credit certainly goes to you. This page should be removed and the author sh*tlisted. Software Kinetics - Moving software Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Compiling FireFx-RC2_0_0_46 robotuner 16:02 20 Dec '07   Hi: Thanks for all the effort that went into the editor. I am having a really basic problem compiling the source. It appears that Fireball.CodeEditor requires a reference to Fireball.CodeEditor.SyntaxFiles and Fireball.CodeEditor.SyntaxFiles requires a reference to Fireball.CodeEditor. How can I resolve that issue? I am trying to add another language to the SyntaxLanguage enum, hence I need to recompile. I have accessed the project by opening the BuildFireFX solution. When I did that, I found that I needed to add the references to all the projects, they seemed to be missing. Was I suppose to do something differently? Thanks. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Newbie questions pactis 13:51 27 Nov '07   Hi, I just found this control and think it is great. However, I can't really find any documentation and have a couple questions. 1. How to enable copy,cut and paste? 2. How to enable intellisense/colorization for special keywords? Is there a documentation file for this? Thanks Paul Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 (2 votes) Whitespaces instead of tabs Laubi 23:49 18 Nov '07   Hi, I've been playing around with this control for a while and I really like it, however I was not able to find a property that allows me to have whitespaces instead of tabs... Any hints? thanks a lot! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Great Job! Santiago Corredoira 8:34 11 Nov '07   Thank you for sharing it Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Congrats & bug ItaniumX 10:21 10 Nov '07   Thank you a lot for working improving and fixing the Compona SyntaxBox Control. It will help me a lot with a project at university. I would like to let you know about a little bug I think I have found in the control (FireFX-RC2-2_0_0_46): I think the codeEditorControl.LineNumberBackColor property is not working well. Every colour I try different from default (white) takes no effect at all. Finally, I would like to ask if there is a way to change the caret width from a property or method (I have not found anything in this way for the moment since there is no much documentation about the control). Anyway I will take a deep look at the source code. Thanks again for your work. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Hi Ginanity 8:41 2 Nov '07   First of all I have to congratulate you with this great interface. I am using this code editor (and i'm currently exploring your framework) in a webdevelopment software kit name Orbis.(http://www.anxma.com/orbisScreen.JPG) I was wondering if there exist any kind of advanced documentation regarding the use of the fireball codeEditor? Secondly I was wondering if we can update the source code ourselves and use the compiled libraries? Thanks in advance, Steven Anxma Belgium Anti@anxma.com Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Hi dotnetfireball 11:26 7 Nov '07   Hi, Thanks for the congrats, i'm sorry but no documentation is available because i'm very busy and i don't have the time for wroting it, if you need to make changes to the code for your's need you can do but you have to send me the changes or simply distribute the modified code on your web site. If you wan't to contribute to the project let me know, i'm porting the code hosting to codeplex, if you need writing access we can discuss about. Nice screen shot DotNetFireball http://www.dotnetfireball.net Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Line Wrap Jack_Cai 5:34 17 Oct '07   Hi it's a great .net control and it's very useful. But I'd like to know if it is possible to change the editor into auto line wrap. Thanks. Jack C. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 4.00/5 (2 votes) How to add a language chenjin_seu 23:36 19 Sep '07   Hi I am a fresher in programming, I have to design a editor for a language which is like C language but more simple.I want to konw how to add a language and define the rules like which keyword should be highlighted. And I have downloaded FireFX-RC2-2_0_0_46_src.zip, but when I open the .sln in Visual Studio 2005, It notes that I should add the quotation of "System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089”,I want to know how to solve this problem, Thank you very much! Regards, Chenjin Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Re: How to add a language Jack_Cai 1:56 17 Oct '07   I tried to add an xml file to add a language to it but if compile only the Codeeditor.SyntaxFile, the language will not be loaded. Recompiling the Codeeditor.SyntaxDocument is not working because the public key token is set. But I manager to have my own language by modifying the CPP language syn file. And it works. You can try it. Jack C. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Re: How to add a language Marijn Stevens 4:40 15 Mar '08   How do I do this ? Do I need to recompile the Fireball source ? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Get Current Token / Block danielku15 13:41 24 Aug '07   Hi there. I wanna try to setup a small intellisense based on a tree-list. For example HTML: <!DOCTYPE ...> html +--Attrs | - dir(left, right) | - id(string) | - lang(de, en..) +--SubItems +---head +---body And so on. But the most complicated thing is not to generate a list with the possible items (Array-Indexes). The most complicated thing is to get : Where is my caret? I know that there is a Property CodeEditorControl.Caret.CurrentWord. But this seems to be null very often. Is there a possibility to get the current block (HTML Tag, HTML Attrib) and read for example the current tag name. (body). Caret v Should return something like. HTML Tag (a) --> HTML Attrib (href) --> HTML String Can I Get the HTML String and read something like "Parent Block" or "Previous Word". It shouldn't be a problem to ignore seperators, operators,... Sure intellisense for OOP languages is complexer than this. But there is no opensource control which provides intellisense in this way that users can use this. And we must change this. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink ASP syntax file gone? samtaz 4:32 19 Jul '07   Hi, I see in your syntax file listing (in CodeEditorSyntaxLoader.cs) you have commented out ASP. The syntax file is not to be found either in the Syns Directory. All the same, you have it listed in the description given above. Is there an issue with the asp syntax file? If no, could somebody post it here? Thanks a lot! Sam Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: ASP syntax file gone? danielku15 13:23 24 Aug '07   It's included in the HTML-Syntax file. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink More note on Undo/redo gokkor 2:02 8 May '07   There is a problem with undo/redo functionality. Star93 kindly send us some fixes but i still see some errors. I didn't have much time to examine the code so i'm not sure of it's efficiency but it works. Here is the additional fixes to the one star93've already mentioned : in FireEdit.cs / MainForm.cs / AddDocument() : at the end of the method it will look like this : tabItem.CodeEditor.TextChanged += new EventHandler(editorControl_TextChanged); tabItem.CodeEditor.Document.UndoBufferChanged += new EventHandler(editorControl_Document_UndoBufferChanged); return tabItem; } and this method will be added to the class as well : void editorControl_Document_UndoBufferChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.CheckForItemState(); } and in the same file, in CheckItemState method : btnSave.Enabled = !this.CurrentEditor.Saved; // <-- added "!" btnSaveAs.Enabled = true; btnPrint.Enabled = true; mnuPrint.Enabled = true; mnuSave.Enabled = !this.CurrentEditor.Saved; // <-- added "!" mnuSaveAs.Enabled = true; ------------------- In FireBall.CodeEditor.cs / Editors\CodeEditorControl.cs : public void Redo() { _ActiveView.Redo(); this.Saved = !_Document.Modified; //this.Saved = false; <--- this line was changed as above } public void Undo() { _ActiveView.Undo(); //this.Saved = false; <--- this line was changed as belove this.Saved = !_Document.Modified; } Hope it helps ... Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Focused doesn't work Marco Bellocchi 3:39 4 May '07   Thanks for your editor, your components are great, you have made a lot of work! I want only to inform you that the Focused property doesn't work; infact, if you enter and edit the CodeEditorControl, the Focused property remain always to false. Kind regards, Marco Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink

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