[Qt-interest] Generic highlighter

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

On Friday 12 November 2010 14:16:58 NoRulez wrote:
> But this is not the answer of my question.
> 
> The implementation is too deep in the qt creators source, but maybe anybody
> has it already extracted?

I do not know of any stand-alone implementation of this. Having said that, the 
implementation in the qt-creator source does not appear to be particularly 
tightly coupled to QtCreator at all.

The generic syntax highlighter stuff is all in one dir, namely:

qt-creator/src/plugins/texteditor/generichighlighter

The Highlighter class here simply inherits from TextEditor::SyntaxHighlighter 
which is in the parent directory. At a quick glance this seems to just operate 
on QTextDocument. So it looks to be fairly simple to extract it.

If you get it to work I am sure that others would also be interested.

Good luck,

Sean