[Ctags-devel] WindRes parser

[Frank F. <ff...@us...>]

Hi all,

I am new to the list, so let me first introduce myself. My name is
Frank Fesevur and I am from the Netherlands. I have written some open
source programs. At the moment I have two main projects, both are
plug-ins for Notepad++, a popular text editor for Windows. One of them
is a yet to be released ctags plug-in. The code of this plug-in is
already available at https://github.com/ffes/npptags

I have attached a parser I created for Windows Resource files. For
those of you not familiar with Windows development, in a .rc file UI
things like dialogs and menus are defined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_%28Windows%29

Here are three links to resource files so you can see the parser in action.
https://github.com/ffes/npptags/blob/master/NppTags_res.rc
https://github.com/ffes/nppsnippets/blob/master/NppSnippets_res.rc
http://dorgem.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dorgem/Dorgem/Dorgem.rc

In its current state it recognizes the resources dialogs, menus,
bitmaps, cursors and icons. That is what I needed at the moment. To
add the other types of resources is not difficult, but just not done
yet. If you think the parser could get included in ctags, I will
gladly complete it. At first I'll add all common resources. Maybe
later also add the controls that belong to a resource (in begin/end
block).

Other than that I am also busy fixing the css parser that is available
at several locations on the net and is not yet included in the
official ctags. But I will send a separate mail about that parser when
I have fixed the problems (mainly related to css3 tags). This to keep
the conversation about the two parser separated from each other.

Regards,
Frank