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Project notes
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Conversion of the UniHighlighter to FPC/Lazarus
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Source homepage is:
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http://www.delphist.com/UniHighlighter.html
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Initial conversion started on 11-6-2003 by Tom Lisjac
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Status
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As of 17-6-2003, the highlighter itself has been converted and lightly
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tested. I also converted the designer and registration unit I wasn't
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able to get them to install. I haven't touched the Syntax Editor app
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although it would definitely be a useful one to convert!
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There are more than 300 highlighters available. See the project homepage.
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Changes for FPC
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Most of the common changes that were needed for FPC conversion were:
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- Added GraphType to the uses statement to resolve TFontStyles
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- In Designer, added Buttons for TButton and LCLType vk_* key declarations
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- In Designer, changed TPageControl to TNotebook and TTabset to TPage. There
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are possible problems that should be reviewed. They are flagged with a TL!!.
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- In SynUniReg, no TDefaultEditor class was found as a base class for
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TSynUniEditor. Used TDefaultComponentEditor instead. Flagged:needs testing!
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- In Designer, removed "out" prefix from method parameter declarations.
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- Added the Lazarus specific method GetTokenEx and conditional to SetLine
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- Prefixed addresses and function parameters with an "@"
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- FPC claimed duplicate IDs in a lot of method declarations that Delphi/Kylix
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obviously didn't worry about. I approached this, for better or worse, by
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adding a 1 suffix to the identifier in the declarations... and then fixing
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up the implementations. All are flagged for and should be reviewed.
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- Removed optional default parameter declarations and explicitly stated
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them in the calls.
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Help Wanted!
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The testuni project provided will compile all files. You'll have to point
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the units path to (LazarusDir)/designer and includes to
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(LazarusDir)/components/synedit to have the required support references.
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The highlighter component needs testing. I checked it out with bash scripts
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and Pascal highlighting and it worked ok. That makes 298 languages to go! :)
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The designer has been converted but is untested because I couldn't get it
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installed into Lazarus... which is probably due to my lack of familiarity
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with the process. There is a Syntax Editor included in the release that would
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probably be *very* useful to convert. Unfortunately I've run out of time
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to work on it right now.
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Please send me any questions or comments... especially if you see something
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that could have been done better. I'm planning to do a lot more FPC
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code conversion and I'd like to get better at it as quickly as possible! :)
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Tom Lisjac
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vlx@users.sourceforge.net
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http://theseus.sourceforge.net
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