Looking for a few people willing to test!

ok this is a simple c++ syntax highlighting program,
i will provide you with the source, the config file.

i need you to find any bugs and comment on suggestions.

the attached is a zip file containing all you need,
thanks to everyone in advance.

this is a sample output

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>


using namespace std;

int main()
{
	string mysentence = "hello world";
	cout << mysentence << endl;
	cout << "welcome to my world" << end;
	return 0;
}

im sure there are some bugs, and plus ive only had
the oppurtunity of testing it on my style of coding,
id like you to test it on yours.

Also the way the config file works, theoritically (i havent tested)
you could make the output work for html files to.

Simple take the .txt off the file name and extract, thank you once
again.

i noticed one bug, such as when i choose to highlight "string"
a typically un-highlighted keyword, that it high lights it in
the #include statment, so i will post an update later.

also i wanted to go into more detail on how the
config file works so you can change it to suit you.

Code:

char=[ COLOR=Blue]char[/COLOR ]
(without the spaces of course i did that so you could see)

that line can be found in the config file
basically you can look at it as the program search
for char and replaces it with [ COLOR=Blue]char[ /COLOR]
so to add on simply add your new word following that
format. if you would like to use it for html syntax highlighting
you could do yourword=<font color=#0000ff>yourword</font>
however it wont preserve your indents, this code is
mainly used to color code your code for cboard posts.

good news i worked out one of the bugs, heres what
the output looks like now with default settings :

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>


using namespace std;

int main()
{
	//stuff
	string mysentence = "hello world"; //a string
	char ch;
	int eight;
	cout << mysentence << endl;
	cout << "welcome to my world" << mysentence << "lalalal" << "uhuuses" << end;
	return 0;
}

and here is the new source

Here's code I tried to highlight:

Code:

#pragma once

#include<iostream>
#include<string>

/* Multi-line comment begins here
   And ends here*/

#ifdef __BORLANDC__
  #error "Borland"
#else if defined(_MSC_VER)
  #error "Microsoft"
#endif

using /*midline comment*/namespace std;

int main()
{
	string mysentence = "hello bool world";
	cout << mysentence << endl;
	cout << "welcome to my world" << end;
	return 0;
}

And here's how it was highlighted:

Code:

#pragma once

#include<iostream>
#include<string>

/* Multi-line comment begins here
   And ends here*/

#ifdef __BORLANDC__
  #error "Borland"
#else if defined(_MSC_VER)
  #error "Microsoft"
#endif

using /*midline comment*/namespace std;

int main()
{
	string mysentence = "hello bool world";
	cout << mysentence << endl;
	cout << "welcome to my world" << end;
	return 0;
}

But here's how it should look:

Code:

#pragma once

#include<iostream>
#include<string>

/* Multi-line comment begins here
   And ends here*/

#ifdef __BORLANDC__
  #error "Borland"
#else if defined(_MSC_VER)
  #error "Microsoft"
#endif

using /*midline comment*/namespace std;

int main()
{
	string mysentence = "hello bool world";
	cout << mysentence << endl;
	cout << "welcome to my world" << end;
	return 0;
}

You've made a good start, but there are a few quirky things and other more obvious things that you need to work out. Fyi, the proper highlighting was done with my codeformatter program (the source is available on my app page if you're at all interested in referencing it).

the few things that it didnt highlight are because there not in the
config file you can add them easily.

as for /* */ comments i havent added support for that,
so far it just supports // comments

and i will be doing one more update soon to stop
the highlighting of words within comments and strings


your code is pretty cool, and you have a good list of keywords
that i will add to mine, i just did a quick search and found the
list that i currently use. one thing cool about my code though
is because of the config file you have alot of control over
what you get.

thank you for testing it out and giving me some comments.

Actually it's not as simple a matter as keywords not being defined. After reviewing a good variety of source from a good variety of sources, you might notice that there are a number of various preprocessor directives that you really can't just define in a config file. It's for that reason that I colorize anything that follows a # until we detect that we should stop.

Yes, you do have to add support for multi/mid-line comments. There are also several other things you need to take into consideration. For example, you could encounter a // after a /* but before a */, you could encounter a /* after a //, you aren't highlighting characters (e.g., char ch = 'X'), you need to ignore quotes within strings/characters (e.g., char ch = '"'; string str = "\"''\"";), etc.

It's true that I've hardcoded all of the keywords in my app and I'm sure you noticed how simple it would be to load them from a file since they are all mapped within an independent function anyway, but I left it that way because my intent was simply to highlight all C++ keywords. In any case, I've made the simple modification to my program and now it loads the keywords from a file. It would take little more work to to include the format description, but I'm not going to do that.

Good luck to you. Keep us updated with your progress.

Okay, I decided to go ahead and extend the functionality of my app. Look at the included ini file for details. You can define multiple formatting tags for keywords, comments, and strings as well as the type of brackets to use around tags. It's in a pseudo-XML format, but currently it doesn't support values with embedded spaces. It will, however, once I make a few minor modifications to the ini file parser. But, I'll do that later.

cool looks like i motivated somebody lol,
anyways i was trying to do mine while
having the shortest source file as possible.

Hehe, yeah, you really did motivate me to implement some great changes. Thanks for that.

I'd like to see how short you can code yours retaining a minimal amount of code. That'd be interesting.

new update supports multilined comments, however it still
highlight words in comments and string, that will be the goal of
my next update.

ok major update this time, i still need opinions, and testing,
there sitll a few thing i have to work out but this good for
now. also lucky, i was looking and in visual studio, it
doesnt highlight the word defined so i have choosen
not to add that word, ive added soem support for words
with # in front so they dont all have to be in the config
file. but i choose not to follow the way you suggested,
i think for the most part it will work out ok.

as for now the code will nto highlight words inside
of comments, but it will highlight words within strings.

I haven't checked out your latest code, but it looks like you're making progress. Good deal.

Btw, MSVC does in fact highlight "defined" in the context I described earlier, but, either way, you've made your executive decision about how your app should work, so I'm making no attempt to sway you away from it.

ah ok i see, i couldnt get it to highlight, i got it now, thanks

ok another update, it doesnt highlight keywords within
strings now.


here the source

good new i have another update ot accomedate some other
styles of coding. also i foudn one more bug, where it
does highligh the same word in the same sentence, my
next udpate will focus on that till then, here is the next update.

P.S.
dont forget to download one of the full release above,
so you can get the config file, if you havent already done so.