wxScintilla - max highlighing

I've only got as far as creating the skeleton lexer (copied from another one), which should give some basic highlighting.
But... I haven't actually tried it yet :-p

However, I am using highlighting with my SQL app, and it's working great.

Here are some code snippets I'm using to get it working, based on wxCodeGen generating the basic stuff :

The codegen block:

		txtEditor = New wxScintilla.Create(m_panel1, wxID_ANY)

		txtEditor.SetUseTabs( True )
		txtEditor.SetTabWidth( 4 )
		txtEditor.SetIndent( 4 )
		txtEditor.SetTabIndents( True )
		txtEditor.SetBackSpaceUnIndents( True )
		txtEditor.SetViewEOL( False )
		txtEditor.SetViewWhiteSpace( False )
		txtEditor.SetMarginWidth( 2, 0 )
		txtEditor.SetIndentationGuides( False )
		txtEditor.SetMarginWidth( 1, 0 )
		txtEditor.SetMarginType( 0, wxSCI_MARGIN_NUMBER )
		txtEditor.SetMarginWidth( 0, txtEditor.TextWidth( wxSCI_STYLE_LINENUMBER, "_99999" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDER, wxSCI_MARK_BOXPLUS )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetBackground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDER, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "BLACK" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetForeground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDER, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "WHITE" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, wxSCI_MARK_BOXMINUS )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetBackground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "BLACK" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetForeground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "WHITE" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDERSUB, wxSCI_MARK_EMPTY )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, wxSCI_MARK_BOXPLUS )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetBackground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "BLACK" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetForeground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "WHITE" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, wxSCI_MARK_BOXMINUS )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetBackground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "BLACK" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerSetForeground( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, New wxColour.CreateNamedColour( "WHITE" ) )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDERMIDTAIL, wxSCI_MARK_EMPTY )
		txtEditor.MarkerDefine( wxSCI_MARKNUM_FOLDERTAIL, wxSCI_MARK_EMPTY )
		txtEditor.SetSelBackground( True, wxSystemSettings.GetColour( wxSYS_COLOUR_HIGHLIGHT ) )
		txtEditor.SetSelForeground( True, wxSystemSettings.GetColour( wxSYS_COLOUR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT ) )

Keywords (a loooong string) :

Const SQL_KEYWORDS:String = "absolute action add admin after aggregate " + ..
	"alias all allocate alter and any are array as asc " + ..
.. etc

Some implementation :

		Local font:wxFont = New wxFont.CreateWithAttribs(10, wxTELETYPE, wxNORMAL, wxNORMAL)
		
		txtEditor.SetLexer(wxSCI_LEX_SQL)
		txtEditor.SetKeywords(0, SQL_KEYWORDS)

		txtEditor.StyleSetFontFont(wxSCI_STYLE_DEFAULT, font)

		txtEditor.StyleClearAll()

		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_COMMENT, New wxColour.Create(0, 200, 0))
		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_COMMENTLINE, New wxColour.Create(0, 200, 0))
		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_COMMENTDOC, New wxColour.Create(0, 200, 0))
		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_NUMBER, New wxColour.Create(180, 0, 180))
		
		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_WORD, New wxColour.Create(0, 0, 200))
		'txtEditor.StyleSetBold(wxSCI_SQL_WORD, True)
		
		txtEditor.StyleSetForeground( wxSCI_SQL_STRING, New wxColour.Create(180, 0, 0))

These two lines :

txtEditor.SetLexer(wxSCI_LEX_SQL)
txtEditor.SetKeywords(0, SQL_KEYWORDS)

are important. They tell wxScintilla what lexer to use, and give it the keywords to colour.

That's about as far as I've gone with it to date. It's a big, complicated beast, extremely powerful, but with lots to get your head around.

The developers say you should look at the SciTE source, which they say is a reference implementation of Scintilla. Which is all very well if you can work out what's going on!

Perhaps we can all work it out together ;-)