Cédric Bosdonnat - GeSHi

A better COOoder is here

2008-09-12T12:56:00+02:00

This new version of the syntax highlighting extension for OpenOffice.org brings the announced features. Many thanks for those who brought their improvement ideas.

The language definition files are written on one line: 40% of time is thus gained during the definition file reading.
The regular expressions used to find the keywords are compiled and stored in a regexp cache: this gains only 3% of time on the snippet highlighting... but it's already interesting on huge snippets.
A progress bar is now showing the highlighting progress.
The languages names are sorted in the listbox... but their display name is still not shown.
A fix for problems with keywords starting with the character ?.

The update site is not ready and the updated sources will be soon available on the Gnome SVN in the ooo-build project.

COOoder.oxt

EDIT The sources can be browsed on GitHub

GeSHi for OpenOffice.org

2008-07-05T09:50:00+02:00

As I have promised it in a later post, here is a first version of the OpenOffice.org extension for syntax highlighting. There are still some things to improve like:

reading the languages files: this could certainly be optimized to avoid parsing the language file at each parsing time.
generating the languages files: add a parameter to remove the new lines in the XML definitions of the language.
present the display names of the languages and sort them by alphabetical order in the language selection dialog.
add some error dialogs for the user to understand problems.

Do not hesitate to report any bug here if you find some. COOoder.oxt

Edit 2008, 06/07:
Sources

OOo for coders (2)

2008-06-13T08:59:00+02:00

Some times ago I have written a post about an OpenOffice.org extension to present code snippets in OOo with syntax highlighting. You may thing that this project is forgotten... but I'm writing here to tell the contrary: I'm coding it when I have some time between work and social life, that is to say slowly.

The GeSHi engine is now almost completely ported to OpenOffice.org: I only need to add the support for the case insensitivity. However I'm not providing anthing yet because there are a few things that are still missing:

Proper language definition files in XML support. The current tests are done with a code snippet mixing several languages with a hard coded language definition. The next step is to define an XML schema for the language definition files and make the language service read it.
A tool converting the GeSHi configuration files into the XML language definition files.
The automated creation of the styles from the language definition during thhe syntax highlighting. The styles are currently used but manually defined.
A GUI to apply the syntax highlighting.

I will provide some dev snapshot of the extension when it will be usable even if you have to configure some things manually. However I can't promise any date... this will completely depend on my available time and mood. Stay tuned...

OOo for coders ?

2008-04-08T11:48:00+02:00

From my first project report containing code at school I had the need to create a syntax highlighting tool for OpenOffice.org. These last years I had no time to do it. Even if I don't have more currently, having stopped the Eclipse plugin for OpenOffice.org development gives me a little more time for it.

To implement such a tool, I started from GeSHi, the famous PHP tool for syntax highlightinh. I'm converting the GeSHi algorithm into a Java extension for OpenOffice.org. The only problem is that applying OpenOffice.org styles for the highlighting imposes rethinking some parts of the algorithm. For example:

GeSHi adds the style for a string before having found its end. In OpenOffice.org I need to get the end of the string before defining its style.
GeSHi defines the style of the escaped characters first and then finds the end of the string. In OpenOffice.org I first need to get the end of the string to set the string style before setting the escaped characters style.

After some other troubles like these there will be an OpenOffice.org extension to format source code in a clean and easy way. Thus stay tuned...

Uno IDL syntax highlighting in PHP

2006-08-20T11:20:00+02:00

Uno IDL is the component specification language of OpenOffice.org. Here is a solution to show some highlighted Uno IDL code. It uses GeSHi and you need to add a language file describing how to parse and colorize you Uno IDL code. As this language file doesn't exist I created one.

Download the GeSHi language file now