[QScintilla] Trying to set different color for different set of keywords in QsciLexerCPP

[Jonas O.]

What is the relation between the set integer and the enum integers ?
Can somebody help me a little more ?

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 15:24, Jonas O. <ezjonas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay so basically KeywordSet2 allows me to color only one additionnal
> keyword set ?
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 00:17, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 21:49:47 +0100, "Jonas O." <ezjonas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now I'm sad.
>>>
>>> How can I use keywordset2 to use a different set of keywords then ?
>>
>> Read my original reply (see below).
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 21:10, Phil Thompson
>> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:44:27 +0100, "Jonas O." <ezjonas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 19:04, Phil Thompson
>>>> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:38:12 +0100, "Jonas O." <ezjonas at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello, and first thanks for bringing Scintilla to Qt ! I'm quite
>> happy
>>>>>>> to see all those nifty features made that much simple to implement
>>>>>>> (current line highlight, margin numbers, select line form left click
>>>>>>> in the margin, etc).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However I'm having one little problem, I want to color some keyword
>>>>>>> sets with a different than other keyword sets.
>>>>>>> I created my own lexer by duplicating the QsciLexerCPP files, but I
>>>>>>> need some starting point to see how I can do that; the SendScintilla
>>>>>>> function is not very documented and does not forward to any
>> scintilla
>>>>>>> doc (I also read it's useless to ask here to learn how to create a
>>>>>>> lexer, but I just want to color certain separately, not create my
>> own
>>>>>>> language).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hope someone could help me at least a little, I guess someone have
>>>>>>> to know how to do it, the creator of QScintilla maybe ? The
>> QScintilla
>>>>>>> lexer classes did not appear magically...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't need to create a new lexer - just subclass QsciLexerCPP and
>>>>>> reimplement the keywords() method to handle the case where the
>> keyword
>>>>>> set
>>>>>> is 2 (see QsciLexerCPP::KeywordSet2). You need to return a string for
>>>>>> set 2
>>>>>> containing the keywords you want coloured differently. If some of
>> these
>>>>>> appear in the default set 1 then you will also need to handle that
>> set
>>>> by
>>>>>> returning a string that doesn't contain those keywords.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You may also want to reimplement defaultColor(), defaultFont() etc.
>> to
>>>>>> provide different defaults for the KeywordSet2 style.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Phil
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I see, but I want to create several sets with each one having a
>>>>> different color, the set 2 will only give me one color, how can it
>>>>> select a different color for each set ?
>>>>
>>>> The underlying Scintilla C++ lexer only supports a limited number of
>>>> keyword sets. You will need to modify that (or take a copy) to add
>>>> support
>>>> for more.
>>>>
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>
>