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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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 (7 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 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 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 5.00/5 (1 vote) 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 Docking Bug Terzy 14:03 11 Apr '07   Hi! I played a bit around with the codeeditor (RC1) and WeifenLuo's DockPanelSuite (which I think is the one you used for your docking system because they are very similar) and found a very annoying bug that occours using DotNetFireball Docking, too. When I Load some forms at the startup of my main form an set their dockstate to autohide (or whatever, it's unimportant) and then load a childform with dockstate Document and a CodeEditor control on it by creating a new instance of the form I get an error trying to show the AutoListBox or the FindDialog (and also ReplaceDialog). It says that it can't access a disposed object (TabListBox) and throws an ObjectDisposedException. The error occours at line 340 in the AutoList.cs and at line 143 (159) in the FindReplace.cs file. I wasn't able to fix it myself because I'm coding in VB2005 Express and I'm not very good (in fact I'm extremely bad) in c#. Anyway I have to say DotNetFireball is one of the best free Control libraries out there. P.S. Excuse my bad english, I'm not from England or USA. Best regards Terzy Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink how to export the doc (with formating) uniquekaiser 18:38 9 Apr '07   Hi, can anybody tell me how to export a docuemnt to RTF or DOC without loosing the syntax coloring, indentation, etc...? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Region and function collapsing Enriad 23:00 2 Apr '07   Excellent work! Could you please point me in the right direction for getting the code (or making my own) for the region and function collapsing? I think it's in one of the DLL's that is written, though I'm not overly sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Daniel Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Region and function collapsing uniquekaiser 18:36 9 Apr '07   that's done editing the syntax files, check the existing ones in order to understand it's logic Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Region and function collapsing Enriad 5:24 10 Apr '07   Thanks for that I thought of having a linked list/structure that has hidden text, startline, endline and iscollapsed (boolean), then editing those, only linked lists like that are kinda hard in C#, I can't find one that will work properly. It's easy in C though. Hopefully that'll work, and obviously, draw the right things depending on which lines are displayed. I'll go through the syntax thing and take a look. Much appreciated. Daniel Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink two fixes gokkor 0:03 26 Mar '07   Hi, First of all, i want to say i really appreciate your work. It’s a good sample. I’ve fixed a few minor problems with the source code (RC1). You can see the changes below. I think you’ve already changed those things in your own build, but most likely forgot in the version that was published on the web. Anyways, thanks for this great sample … A small fix in FireEdit/FormMain.cs/GetDialogFileFilters : (Added i++ line) private string GetDialogFileFilters() { Dictionary.Enumerator langs = (Dictionary.Enumerator)CodeEditorSyntaxLoader.LanguageList.ListLanguages(); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); int i = 0; while (langs.MoveNext()) { if (i != 0) sb.Append("|"); sb.Append(langs.Current.Value.FileDialogFilters); i++; } filterCount = i + 2; sb.Append("|All File|*.*"); return sb.ToString(); } Another small fix in FireBall.SyntaxDocument / Parser\DefaultParser.cs / InternalParseLine : (added CurrentSegment.Parent check) while ((CurrentSegment.Parent != null) && (!CurrentSegment.BlockType.MultiLine)) { Row.EndSegments.Add(CurrentSegment); CurrentSegment = CurrentSegment.Parent; } Best regards, Gokhan KORALTURK VizyonNet ARGE gokkor at gmail Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 3.00/5 (1 vote)

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