About Custom Highlighter Scripts to color a custom tag

[camilokawerin]

Hi, IĀ´m evaluating Webuilder and IĀ´m interested in a feature I have using UltraEdit witch is the posibility of use a different color for a custom group of tags in a language. I work with a content management system where I use some code like this:

<block id="my_block">
<ul>
<row>
<li><a href="{function_link()}">{$title}</a></li>
</row>
</ul>
</block>

IĀ´d like to define a color for "block" and "row" tags, $variables and functions(). IĀ´ve been testing with Custom Highlighter Scripts to get this, but I didnĀ´t make it work. Is possible to do that with Webuilder? And what should I add to my custom script if itĀ´s possible?

Thanks in advance!

[Gatis]

Yes, it is possible to have the highlighting to be customized, so that tags can have different colours.
Go to Main Menu; Options; Preferences; Text Editor; Colors; Advanced Tools; Custom Highlighter Scripts; select HTML; click Browse.
Browse to folder: "C:\Program Files\WeBuilder 2008\data\hscripts" and choose "MulticolorHTML.xs". Restart program.
This will load that file and you will be able to specify a color for <img > tag, for example (you can define color also under "Text Editor; Colors;").
Similarly you can achieve the desired effect for other tags, by carefully modifying the existing Highlighter Script or creating your own.

[camilokawerin]

Great! IĀ´ve tried with a group of custom tags and it works perflectly.

Anyway, I donĀ´t understand at all what is the logic of the *.xs files.

For example, when you say:

snormal <form shtmlFO thtmlform
shtmlFO [^>^\"]* shtmlFO thtmlform
shtmlFO > snormal thtmlform

How should I read it?

Also, IĀ´ve tried a regular expression to fit all the portion of code between { and } at my templates and it didnĀ´t work. IĀ´ve tried with:

snormal \{[.]*\} snormal tcmsvals

Later, if you could clarify to me that issues, IĀ´ll try to apply a different color to $variables, functions() and 'literals' inside my code.

Thank you very much!

[Gatis]

Unfortunately I can not give you very detailed explanation of how this works now.
>> snormal <form shtmlFO thtmlform

Basically first comes the current parser state - "snormal", then the text rule "<form" (regular expression or simple string) that should be checked, then the new parser state "shtmlFO", and finally the token's ID "thtmlform" (which you can then use to specify custom color).
In the upcoming Major version we will add more detailed explanation of how these things work (most likely this info will be added in the Knowledge Base in our web site).