Re: Minimap test request

Peter,

I have to agree with Emilian's viewpoint. Your minimap does look very nice, however it is showing the colors different than what mine actually are running the Darkula LnF.

Also, the suggestion regarding the color matrix would have to make it faster, not that I can tell that it's slow, mind you. However, I am running an Intel I5 with 8 GiB of RAM, so it's hard for me to tell anything about speed because it takes a lot to slow my system down.

But, again, it does look very nice overall.

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On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 00:23 +0200, Emilian Bold wrote:

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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


https://youtu.be/-hnKQXVAA2w



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From: Peter Cheung <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:52 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [platform-dev] Minimap test request


Hi All

   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:


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.

2) allow people to ignore the white space or tab in the middle of line

3) change the scaling, longer line become longer, shorter line become
shorter

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

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

6) highlight word occurrence, very useful i think. Instead of highligh those
words in minimap, may be make it blink is better.

7) highlight the bookmark line, atom has it, but i would like to support it
too.


thanks

from Peter