ColorizeScript challenge

[Brian Yennie]

I've been silently following this thread, and one more out-of-the-box 
idea comes to mind. What about just colorizing the lines of the script 
currently visible in the editor, and updating when the user scrolls? If 
that limited the whole job to say, 50 lines of script, would the 
original slower, simpler version of the script suffice?

It might not give live scrolling in color - but the update could still 
be snappy enough to not slow down anyone actually reading the script?

- Brian


>
> On 27 Apr 2006, at 01:49, wouter wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>>
>> -snip-
>>>
>>> I see a problem with using htmlText. Say a script contains html 
>>> entities such as ">", for example in a script that builds some 
>>> html strings. Under my script, these would get converted to the 
>>> actual character in the colorized script.
>>> Some more thinking to do.
>>
>> Another one of which could cause colorizing problems in your script, 
>> are those "	" and the likes.
>> Everything behind the # will be considered a comment.
>
> You're right, Wouter. And I think any "#" or "--" in quotes will get 
> treated as a comment in my latest version.
>
> Richard, I don't think you should rush to include this in the IDE just 
> yet.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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