Re: Implement additional Hints for existing Language

yes, exactly, that would be awesome!

Am 2016-10-09 11:42, schrieb geertjan wielenga:
> So, to be clear, if I show an example of how to create a new plugin
> that adds a new HTML hint in NetBeans IDE, that's what you're looking
> for?
> 
> Gj
> 
> On 9-10-2016 11:39, Alex Muthmann wrote:
>> Yes, this is what I (of course) did first, I also had a deeper look 
>> into the Netbeans sources but there was no implementation covering my 
>> requirement (extend an existing language). It looks easy to implement 
>> a new one, but if you need to use an already registered mimeType it 
>> gets fuzzy :(
>> 
>> Am 2016-10-09 01:13, schrieb geertjan wielenga:
>>> 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