make codehints work within defined start/end - tags only ?

[Günter_Schenk]

Hi there,

would like to know if it´s possible to make custom codehints work inside defined opening/closing tags, say, PHP codehints which should only appear when typing a pattern inside existing <?php ... ?> tags.

Cheers,

Günter

[Randy Edmunds]

would like to know if it´s possible to make custom codehints work inside defined opening/closing tags, say, PHP codehints which should only appear when typing a pattern inside existing <?php ... ?> tags.

Yes. Specify doctypes="PHP_MySQL" on each <function> tag.

You can see an example in Configuration/CodeHints/php_codehints.xml .

HTH,

Randy

[Günter_Schenk]

Randy Edmunds wrote:

Yes. Specify doctypes="PHP_MySQL" on each <function> tag.

Hi Randy,

should have mentioned that I´m not using codehints "functions", but menu patterns which have the DOCTYPES="PHP_MySQL" defined, example:

<menu pattern="whatever" DOCTYPES="PHP_MySQL" casesensitive="true">

....

</menu>

In this context the "doctypes" doesn´t seem to do what I thought they would, because the corresponding labels will also become displayed when typing a pattern outside the <?php ?> tags.

Cheers,

Günter

[Randy Edmunds · Accepted solution]

should have mentioned that I´m not using codehints "functions", but menu patterns which have the DOCTYPES="PHP_MySQL" defined, example:

<menu pattern="whatever" DOCTYPES="PHP_MySQL" casesensitive="true">

....

</menu>

This is fixed with the displayrestriction attribute. Set it to the Code Coloring <scheme> that you want to limit the code hinting to.

What does Code Coloring have to do with Code Hints? The "Code Coloring" feature is a bit of a misnomer. The Code Coloring patterns define different syntax states that are used for code coloring, but they are used by other code view features.

Look in Configuration/CodeColoring/PHP.xml, and you'll see that the main PHP <scheme> has id="PHP_Script". So, add this:

  displayrestriction="PHP_Script"

to the <menu> tag.

Regards,

Randy

[Günter_Schenk]

Thanks Randy,

you´re a life-saver -- all works well now 🙂

Cheers,

Günter

[Günter_Schenk]

If I understand it correctly, we seem to have 5 code coloring schemes (aka "displayrestriction" values) defined in extra XML files:

ASP JavaScript = ASP_JScript

ASP VBScript = VBScript

ASP.NET CSharp = Csharp

ASP.NET VB = VB.Net

PHP = PHP_Script

...and apart from this, all other possible "displayrestriction" values seem to be defined in the file "Configuration/CodeColoring/CodeColoring.xml", and those who´d like to add custom codehints for other serverside scripting languages would have to check lines such as...

<scheme MMString:name="CFScript/scheme/name" id="CFScript" priority="20">

...and use the "id" value (say, CFScript) as "displayrestriction" value ?

Cheers,

Günter

[Randy Edmunds]

Günter,

For Server Model Code Hints, yes that's correct.

There are also a few places where displayrestriction is used for css" and "JavaScript" <scheme>'s.

HTH,

Randy