Eclipse Community Forums: Plugin Development Environment (PDE) » Eclipse custom texteditor

Home » Eclipse Projects » Plugin Development Environment (PDE) » Eclipse custom texteditor - marker annotation presentation issue

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Eclipse custom texteditor - marker annotation presentation issue [message #1041040]

Sun, 14 April 2013 10:22

Michael Dietrich
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2012

Junior Member

I want to write an eclipse plugin for my computer science lecturer. It's a custom editor with an xml based file format.
I've implemented syntax highlighting and other stuff. But I stuck when it comes to the usage of annotations/marker to show invalid content.

This is how it looks like, if the content is valid:
image-upload.de/image/aPcsaa/6c799a671c.png

This is how it looks like, if the content is invalid:
image-upload.de/image/4TdooQ/04d662f397.png

NOTE: would like to use direct images here, but I'm not allowed to... (thanks to this great restriction)

As you can see, invalid attributes will get marked, but the problem is, the whole formatting seems to be lost between these annotations.

I use

org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.Reconciler

for delayed parsing of the content to create the document model. The model is used to format the text and display annotations. All this happens in the void

void process(DirtyRegion dirtyRegion)

method of the

Reconciler

.

For text formatting I use

<ITextViewer>.changeTextPresentation(textAttributes, false)

and for annotation handling I use

IAnnotationModel annotationModel = <ISourceViewer>.getAnnotationModel();
IAnnotationModelExtension annotationModelExtension = (IAnnotationModelExtension) annotationModel;
annotationModelExtension.replaceAnnotations(oldAnnotations, newAnnotations);

Since the

Reconciler

does not use the swt thread I have to use this construct to avoid exceptions:

<ITextViewer>.getTextWidget().getDisplay().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
  @Override
  public void run() {

    <ITextViewer>.changeTextPresentation(textAttributes, false);
    updateAnnotations(nodes);
  }
});

By the way

ITextViewer

and

ISourceViewer

are meant as the same viewer object.

As annotation type I've testet:

org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor.spelling

and some others, also custom types, but all with the same result.

I'm not quite sure, what I'm doing wrong, could it be because it is all in a single call?

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Thank you in advance.

[Updated on: Sun, 14 April 2013 10:24]

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Require custom messages while editing a read-only file in the workbench
Next Topic:	Missing templates in exported Eclipse

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Wed Mar 12 04:53:25 EDT 2014