Re: Detecting words

Alright, I think for now I am going to keep things simple. I'll just check 
for xsl: and at that point show a function list. Not complicate it with any 
other stuff.

On Saturday, 18 January 2025 at 15:44:04 UTC Mitchell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > On Jan 18, 2025, at 10:31 AM, Andrew Truckle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Matt
> > 
> > I have not investigated that. Bu I now realise that even that is not 
> sufficient. For example:
> > 
> > <xsl:variable name="happy" ^
> > 
> > If I have typed the above and the cursor is now where the ^ is. At the 
> point I need to detect:
> > 1. That the command is xsl:variable
> > 2. That the name parameter has already been applied.
> > 3. Display the Select value in the drop-list.
> > 
> > My original idea will not work anyway. It would only work if I am on the 
> first parameter. So this is where I am getting confused. Whilst I can 
> display a function list, or a parameter list, I need to know the context. I 
> am not sure how to programatically work that out. Originally I though that 
> I could possibly use reg ex to find the function for the current text. eg: 
> search backword for xsl: and extract the text afterwards, in this case 
> "variable". This would give me the function for showing the parameter list. 
> But I don't know how. 
>
> If you know your tags will only span one line, you could use 
> SCI_GETCURLINE and manually parse the returned string up to the returned 
> position, splitting on spaces for example. Otherwise you’re getting into 
> very complex territory that probably involves iterating backwards, looking 
> for a ‘<‘ not in a string and then parsing the result.
>
> Cheers,
> Mitchell

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