Re: Minimap test request

BTW, did you know this exists?
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/57219/?show=true ?

The author is looking for maintainers so perhaps you could step in?
https://github.com/markiewb/nb-codeoutline


--emi

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Peter Cheung <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Sean
>
>      I aligned the color theme to the netbeans theme, please see
> http://peter.kingofcoders.com/?p=2262
> Let me optimise the plugin for speed.
> thanks
> from Peter
>
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> *From:* Sean Carrick <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 8:42 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [platform-dev] 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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> *Sean Carrick*
> VP Software Development, Integrity Solutions
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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]> wrote:
>
> https://youtu.be/-hnKQXVAA2w
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [platform-dev] Minimap test request
>
>
> Hi All
>
>    Can you test this for mehttp://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
>
>
>
>