Click here to Skip to main content
15,896,207 members
Articles / Desktop Programming / Windows Forms

Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4.97/5 (878 votes)
24 Oct 2014LGPL323 min read 7.4M   104.3K   1.3K  
Custom text editor with syntax highlighting
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using FastColoredTextBoxNS;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Tester
{
    public partial class CustomStyleSample : Form
    {
        //create my custom style
        EllipseStyle ellipseStyle = new EllipseStyle();

        public CustomStyleSample()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void fctb_TextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            //clear old styles of chars
            e.ChangedRange.ClearStyle(ellipseStyle);
            //append style for word 'Babylon'
            e.ChangedRange.SetStyle(ellipseStyle, @"\bBabylon\b", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// This style will drawing ellipse around of the word
    /// </summary>
    class EllipseStyle : Style
    {
        public override void Draw(Graphics gr, Point position, Range range)
        {
            //get size of rectangle
            Size size = GetSizeOfRange(range);
            //create rectangle
            Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(position, size);
            //inflate it
            rect.Inflate(2, 2);
            //get rounded rectangle
            var path = GetRoundedRectangle(rect, 7);
            //draw rounded rectangle
            gr.DrawPath(Pens.Red, path);
        }
    }
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3)


Written By
Software Developer Freelancer
Ukraine Ukraine
I am Pavеl Tоrgаshоv, and I live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
I've been developing software since 1998.
Main activities: processing of large volumes of data, statistics, computer vision and graphics.

Comments and Discussions