Re: Minimap test request

Looks very nice Peter.

Not sure why you are taking the color char by char I believe the API
provides bigger tokens which you could merge internally into a (color)
matrix. You might slow things down by going 1 char at a time.

Bookmarks shouldn't be hard, we have an API for that.

Highlight occurrence might be a bit more tricky. I can't remember if
we have a separate layer there.

Anyhow, very nice feature!

Also try to detect if we are under a "dark" theme. A lot of people are
using the Darcula LnF and you want your code map to fit in nicely.

--emi


On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Peter Cheung <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [platform-dev] Minimap test request
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> Hi All
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>    Can you test this for me
> http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/71031/?show=true ? The technique i use to
> generate a code map is : loop through the Elements in HighlightContainer,
> get the color of each character then generate a map. It is better than take
> a screen shoot of the code and minimize it to be the code map. Because each
> character is represented by a small box of color in the map, not just
> zooming the character and put it on the map. This make the code look more
> sharp and clear. Personally i think atom editor's has the best minimap and i
> will add these feature to beat them:
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> 1) allow ignore all white space or tab in the beginning of line. Some people
> think this make the map sharper. I believe normal people overlook the map by
> seeing the tail of each line, so if i put white-box in the beginning of
> lines, just lesser sharp of the map.
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> 2) allow people to ignore the white space or tab in the middle of line
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> 3) change the scaling, longer line become longer, shorter line become
> shorter
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> 4) build in several color theme (including gray theme), the color in atom
> editor minimap is same as the text on the editor, not good enough
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> 5) Atom's minimap is scrollable, which mean you cannot overlook the whole
> code by look at the minimap. We are in retina display age, i think this
> should be cancel. So i just display the whole code minimap without scroll
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> 6) highlight word occurrence, very useful i think. Instead of highligh those
> words in minimap, may be make it blink is better.
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> 7) highlight the bookmark line, atom has it, but i would like to support it
> too.
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> thanks
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> from Peter
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