[antlr-interest] Syntax- highlighter and completition

[Scott Stanchfield]

If you're using eclipse, check out xtext
(http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext). It'll generate a syntax-highlighting
editor and EMF model for the DSL, and you could package it as an RCP
application. Very easy to do (hardest thing is to write the grammar,
but it's pretty similar to ANTLR and uses ANTLR under the covers)
-- Scott

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Scott Stanchfield
http://javadude.com



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:18 AM,  <Nieves.Salor.Moral at esa.int> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Sorry for not answering before, but I have been studying your answers and
> making a trade-off list about them. At the end, I am going to use the
> netbeans plugging for integrating ANTLR, although I wanted a stand-alone
> application as I already had the SWING custom interface (IDE like) running
> via Eclipse, so I only needed to call in background the process of ANTLR
> validation and show the results of the validation in the console window.
> But I don't think it is going to be complicated to import it into eclipse
> as I used custom libraries.
>
> After I finish with the prototype I will let you know, 'cos my final goal
> is to create the desktop application without requiring Netbeans, Eclipse
> to be installed in the computer just JAVA, so it also can be embedded into
> other projects.
>
> Nieves
>
>
>
> "Paul Bouché (NSN - DE, Berlin)" <paul.bouche at nsn.com>
> 13/08/2010 10:34
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> To
> ext Andreas Stefik <stefika at gmail.com>
> cc
> Nieves.Salor.Moral at esa.int, antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject
> Re: [antlr-interest] Syntax- highlighter and completition
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> Hi,
>
> so this is really interesting. Do you know if the text editing components
> are available standalone from NetBeans - I heard such a thing?
>
> BR,
> Paul
>
> ext Andreas Stefik schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> Another option you have is to use the NetBeans platform for these
> editor tasks. Basically, you keep a list of whatever you want (e.g.,
> what methods have been parsed, what variables, tokens), and you pass
> them to the platform's APIs specifically designed for parsing,
> highlighting, etc. All of the threading/highlighting/user interface
> work is done for you, is commercially scalable, and works extremely
> well behind the scenes.
>
> Like anything, it isn't trivial to do, but the APIs for parsing/code
> completion/syntax highlighting are pretty straightforward and there
> are tutorials online on how to do it with ANTLR. Here's one, for
> example:
>
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/Netbeans_Rcp_Antlr_Integration_Index
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Andreas Stefik
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:40 AM,  <Nieves.Salor.Moral at esa.int> wrote:
>
> Helllo!!
>
> I think this is an old topic, but looking at the list I haven't found a
> clear answer to the problem. I am trying to do a system that opens in a
> swing panel an specific type file, which follows my specific grammar and
> allows its editing.
> Hence, I want to add syntax-highlighting and also auto completion to the
> file (both in the editing and in the only reading), But also I should show
> the syntax tree.
>
> I have my ANTLR grammar running (pluto.g) and tested with current output
> as a flat AST tree. But I am not entirely sure what to do next.
>
> My first option is to specify as output templates and use directly from
> the parser grammar StringTemplate with the output specifying the colors,
> font, etc in a kind of HTML similar code and later plug-in in the swing
> panel
> Second option, is to create a Parser Tree and later on, use the templates
> Third, forget the parser and just use the lexer????
>
> The problem is that the final goal of the system is to create SQL queries
> to insert/modify in a DB the information that contains the grammar.
>
> Any outputs are welcome, thanks
>
>
>
> Nieves Salor Moral
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