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Get all written text out of the editor [message #820752]

Wed, 14 March 2012 14:26

Heinz Huber

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Registered: February 2012

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Hi,

first of all ... i am sorry to have opened this topic!
But i can not remember the name of a function i found 2 weeks ago.

I was writing my formatter and searched for a way to access the grammer. Within this process i found a function which got me ALL things which i wrote (with comments, whitespaces ...) in the plugin's editor. After some time i found a better way to format and so i forgot this function.

Now i need it in another context ... could someone please tell me the name of this function? Searching this board and google doesn't help me remember. Playing with functions and classes which could be the right ones doesn't help either.

Thanks in advance for helping me remember ...

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Re: Get all written text out of the editor [message #820755 is a reply to message #820752]

Wed, 14 March 2012 14:30

Christian Dietrich

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Are you talking about the NodeModelUtils class?

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Re: Get all written text out of the editor [message #820760 is a reply to message #820755]

Wed, 14 March 2012 14:36

Heinz Huber

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Hi Christian,

no i don't think, that the class was called like this.
It was something which i tried inside the configureFormatting() function inside my extended AbstractDeclarativeFormatter.
I think i found that way of accessing the grammar by using google (about 2 weeks ago) ... but now i'm not able to find the information again.

The function returned me all the text which was wrote inside the editor file.
With comments, whitespaces and all that stuff. I think the return value was a String, char[] ... something like that.

Don't really remember ... thats my problem Sad

Hope you got an idea after reading this!

If you know another function (maybe a function of a eclipse thing) which is doing the same -> Thats okay for me too!

[Updated on: Wed, 14 March 2012 14:38]

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Re: Get all written text out of the editor [message #820778 is a reply to message #820760]

Wed, 14 March 2012 14:54

Christian Dietrich

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Hi what is your desired starting point for that? What is the thing
you have in hands

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Re: Get all written text out of the editor [message #820941 is a reply to message #820778]

Wed, 14 March 2012 19:18

Heinz Huber

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What do you exactly mean with "starting point"?
I remember that i had a function which could do that inside the configureFormatting() function! I dont know which starting points i got there ... maybe something with grammarAccess, GrammarUtil whatever :A

But in thecontext i want to use it, is in the hoover effect class.
I want to walk through the document and search for a comment ... and then open this comment (which represents a file link) to get some information.
This information will then be shown in the hoover effect.

Not a very usual use case i know, but i want/need this Smile

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Re: Get all written text out of the editor [message #820953 is a reply to message #820941]

Wed, 14 March 2012 19:32

Christian Dietrich

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Hi, I meant actually the context you want to use the functionality.
If you use nodemodelutils to get the node for your object you can ask
the node for its text.

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