AqiStar.TextBox Syntax Highlighting WPF control
High performance syntax coloring textbox for Windows Vista applications.
Language Definition Features
Language definition is a XML document that define how to highlight a particular
language. Language definitions for 7 different languages are provided directly by
AqiStar.TextBox but one can build a custom definition with easy
and instruct AqiStar.TextBox to use it to highlight a text.
Even for language definitions everything can be designed with XAML and no custom
.NET code is needed.
- Direct support for highlight C#, VB.NET, XML/XAML, HTML, ASP.NET, Java/JavaScript
source code just selecting it.
- Custom language definition written in XAML and shared using WPF resources.
WPF resources can contain a AqiStar.TextBox Language Definition
so you can create a language definition to be shared among all control of an application
or even a single control, preventing to load language definitions for textboxes
that don't need them.
- Support for regular expression in order to define begin/end of a span.
This feature can be very useful if you need to colorize a region of text that is
difficult to isolate without regular expressions. For example if you want to set
a different background color for a java script code in a html document then you
have to intercept text like '<script language = "JavaScript">'.
With regular expressions you can get that just defining a begin span with content
'<script\s+language\s*=\s*"JavaScript"[^>'.
- Support for different font in same document.
Many text editor support only one font. This means that you can change only the
font color or specify a font style. In AqiStar.TextBox you can
select a different font for each span in the same way you set for example bold style.