Re: Implement additional Hints for existing Language

I'll try to take a look but if I were you I'd go to Google and search 
for 'getHintsProvider' to see how others have implemented that -- I can 
see many implementations when I do that.

Gj

On 8-10-2016 20:57, Alex Muthmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> You can find the code here:
> https://github.com/wcm-io/wcm-io-tooling/tree/netbeans-sightly-hints
>
> SightlyLanguage.java: 
> https://github.com/wcm-io/wcm-io-tooling/blob/netbeans-sightly-hints/netbeans/sightly/src/main/java/io/wcm/tooling/netbeans/sightly/editor/SightlyLanguage.java
> SightylHintsProvider: 
> https://github.com/wcm-io/wcm-io-tooling/blob/netbeans-sightly-hints/netbeans/sightly/src/main/java/io/wcm/tooling/netbeans/sightly/editor/hints/SightlyHintsProvider.java
>
> I added some exceptions, so I would expect to see those as soon, as 
> the language is called successfully.
>
>
> Am 2016-10-08 12:21, schrieb geertjan wielenga:
>> On 7-10-2016 0:26, Alex Muthmann wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> there has already be a discussion with Geertjan and Petr regarding 
>>> the options to implement additional Hints for an existing language. 
>>> I need to add additional Hints for HTML files and the consensus was, 
>>> that I should use the CSL API to implement a Language and add a 
>>> HintProvider.
>>>
>>> I did some basic tests
>>
>> Put your code on GitHub and send a link to it here so we can all see
>> the code rather than text.
>>
>> Gj
>>
>>> but ran into the following situation:
>>> As soon as I register a new Language XYZ which uses the mimeType 
>>> text/html, the build-in HTML Language does not work anymore (no 
>>> hints, no code-completion etc). I'd expect that all languages 
>>> registered on a mimeType are used and not only one of those.
>>>
>>> I was not able to find this use-case in the netbeans source-code and 
>>> I'm currently lost :(
>>> Could somebody probably provide an example of a working extension of 
>>> an existing language or an alternative to the implementation of a 
>>> complete new language?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>> Alex Muthmann