Adding Syntax Highlighting for JPanel

[Berlin Brown]

Is it possible to add syntax highlighting to a JPanel style panel from
an existing java based text editor to a custom application. I was
thinking about doing this with JEdit and I think they will add this in
the next version. But I don't it currently supports this without a lot
of hacking. Has anybody done this any other editor panel.

Ideally, I am trying to add Python/XML syntax highlighting I want to
put out to people.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Sj=F6blom?=]

Is it possible to add syntax highlighting to a JPanel style panel from
an existing java based text editor to a custom application. I was
thinking about doing this with JEdit and I think they will add this in
the next version. But I don't it currently supports this without a lot
of hacking. Has anybody done this any other editor panel.

I've used the old JEdit syntax highlighting package (supposedly the
JEdit people are trying to create a new standalone component, but I have
not investigated it, since I no longer need it). It is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit-syntax/. It behaves mostly like
any other Swing component, but the disadvantage of it is that it is
quite old, and doesn't conform to the design philosophy of newer Swing.
If I recall correctly, the main problem was the non-standard handling of
keyboard events, which required some work to get around. Other than
that, I think it is quite good, and very fast (which incidentally
probably has something to do with its age.)

 

[Berlin Brown]

Cool, looks good.

 

[Bill Tschumy]

I've used the old JEdit syntax highlighting package (supposedly the
JEdit people are trying to create a new standalone component, but I have
not investigated it, since I no longer need it). It is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit-syntax/. It behaves mostly like
any other Swing component, but the disadvantage of it is that it is
quite old, and doesn't conform to the design philosophy of newer Swing.
If I recall correctly, the main problem was the non-standard handling of
keyboard events, which required some work to get around. Other than
that, I think it is quite good, and very fast (which incidentally
probably has something to do with its age.)

I've also used this package and I highly recommend it. It is almost a
drop-in replacement for JEditPane.

 

[Berlin Brown]

I got excited and wrote a small article, about how to use this, and use
it with Python.

http://www.retroevolution.com/beta/syntaxjavapanel/