Features

SyntaxEditor is a powerful editing control, similar to a multi-line TextBox, which syntax highlights text and provides an amazing number of state-of-the-art features for code editing. SyntaxEditor is modeled after the code editor in VS.NET and provides nearly all of its functionality.

SyntaxEditor comes packaged with a number of sample language definitions for common languages like C#, VB.NET, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, JScript, and VBScript. Custom language definitions can be developed in an easy to learn XML format and distributed with your applications. To provide maximum functionality in the editor control, SyntaxEditor uses two parsing phases, a lexical parsing phase that tokenizes text, and an optional semantic parsing phase that you can implement to generate extended semantic parse data to be used for code outlining, IntelliPrompt, etc.

SyntaxEditor is best designed for use in IDE (integrated development environment) applications. It may also be creatively used in other scenarios. For instance, you could make the editor read-only and use it for displaying log files or status messages (like in an FTP client) for an application. The possibilities are limitless.

Major features of SyntaxEditor include:

• Multiple language support
• Custom NFA regular expression engine
• XML language definitions
• Lexical parsing of text into tokens
• Open-ended design for semantic parsing of tokens
• Code outlining
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Undo/redo action grouping
• Line numbering in line number margin
• Line modification tracking
• Word wrap (character and token wrapping modes)
• Indicators (bookmarks, breakpoints, misspelling markers, etc.) in indicator margin
• Indentation guides
• Whitespace display
• Content dividers
• Block indent/outdent
• Line selection in the selection margin
• Bracket highlighting
• Case sensitivity and auto-correct
• Complete extended Unicode character support
• Any type of font is supported, including non-monospace fonts
• Triggers for handling keystroke/action combinations
• Feature-rich find/replace object model
• Customizable dialogs
• Four-way or two-way split views
• IntelliPrompt member lists
• IntelliPrompt info tips
• IntelliPrompt quick info
• WYSIWYG printing and print preview
• HTML and RTF export
• Custom DataObject support
• Much, much more...

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