Concatenate TextPrint

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi,

I would like to Concatenate more TextPrint Object in order to print Text with different Colors , for example :

<blue>This is blue</blue><green>This is green</green>

The aim of this is to print the syntax Highlighting of my TextEditor.
I tried this with GribPrint but it is not the right solution because of the weight of the columns.

Do you have any Idea ?

Thanks
Woolite

[Matthew Hall]

Have you looked at StyledTextPrint?

StyledTextPrint text = new StyledTextPrint();
TextStyle style = new TextStyle();
text.append("This is blue", style.foreground(0x0000FF));
text.append("This is green", style.foreground(0x00FF00));

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Thanks Matthew,

It was exactly that I was looking for.

For your Information, I had to extends the TextStyle class, to be able to have text with different foregrounds and FontData.

I first tried :

<code>
StyledTextPrint text = new StyledTextPrint();
TextStyle style = new TextStyle();
style.foreground(new RGB(0,0,255));
style.font(new FontData("Courier",6,SWT.BOLD));
text.append("This is blue", style);
</code>

But this didn't work.
So I created a TextStyle2 class (See at the end of the message).
And wrote :

<code>
StyledTextPrint text = new StyledTextPrint();
TextStyle2 style = new TextStyle2();
style.setForeground(new RGB(0,0,255));
style.setFontData(new FontData("Courier",6,SWT.BOLD));
text.append("This is blue", style);
</code>

This works fine :-)
Was it volunteer that we can't set the properties on a TextStyle class ?

Best Regards,
Woolite

<code>
//-------------------------------------
// The TextStyle2 class 

    protected class TextStyle2 extends TextStyle{
        RGB foreground;
        FontData font;
       
        public RGB setForeground(RGB color){
            this.foreground = color;
            return color;
        }
       
        public RGB getForeground(){
            return this.foreground;
        }
       
        public FontData setFontData(FontData font){
            this.font = font;
            return font;
        }
       
        public FontData getFontData(){
            return this.font;
        }
       
    }
</code>

[Matthew Hall]

TextStyle is immutable.  Each method call creates a new TextStyle, which you should assign back to the local variable.

StyledTextPrint text = new StyledTextPrint(); 
TextStyle style = new TextStyle(); 
style = style.foreground(new RGB(0,0,255));
style = style.font(new FontData("Courier",6,SWT.BOLD));
text.append("This is blue", style);

This pattern is intended to support styling text according to the difference from the main text style, e.g.:

style = new TextStyle().foreground(0x000000).fontHeight(12);
text.append("This word is ",       style)
    .append("green",               style.foreground(0x00FF00))
    .append(", this word is ",     style)
    .append("large",               style.fontHeight(24))
    .append(", and this word is ", style)
    .append("both",                style.foreground(0x00FF00).fontHeight(24));   

Regards,

Matthew

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Thanks for the useful Help

Best Regards,
Woolite