Thanks to both of you and Milian. I have it working already.
Once I got the editor the right way, setting the syntax highlighting I wanted
was as easy as:
document->setHighlightingMode("mediawiki");
O Domingo, 2 de Xuño de 2013 03:17:02 Dominik Haumann escribiu:
> On Wednesday, 29. May 2013 21:38:03 Adrián Chaves Fernández wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to start an application with a text editor that provides a specific
> > syntax highlighting, as the application is only going to support a specific
> > type of files (MediaWiki). Then I plan to build some features
> > (auto-complete, etc.) on top of it.
> >
> > Not to reinvent the wheel, I wanted to reuse Kate’s text edition widget.
> > I’ve actually been working on improving the MediaWiki syntax highlighting
> > support in Kate, so reusing that work for my app would be ideal.
> >
> > So I found myself copying and pasting the code in
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KParts
>
> It's correct that the KTextEditor interfaces implement KParts.
> There more straightforward way to get an editor component is to to follow
> http://api.kde.org/4.10-api/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/ktexteditor/html/kte_howto.html
> As you can see, creating an editor is simply done by:
>
> KTextEditor::Editor *editor = KTextEditor::EditorChooser::editor();
> // error handling omitted
> m_document = editor->createDocument(0);
> m_view = m_document->createView(this);
> // hook this view into the gui somewhere
>
> // now XML gui stuff:
> setXMLFile("mainwindowui.rc");
> guiFactory()->addClient(m_view);
>
> setXMLFile sets your gui.rc file. This is where you can control which actions
> of Kate appear in the gui, iirc. If in doubt, you can also look at the Kate
> application (kate/app/*). There we also solely use the interfaces to get the
> editor component instance.
>
> > Now I have a working KatePart. But I have no idea whatsoever about
> > interacting with it from code (such as getting an instance of
> > KateDocument). Any recommendation that puts me in the right direction to
> > set the KatePart syntax highlighting from code?
>
> One way of setting the syntax highlighting is:
> #include <commandinterface.h>
>
> KTextEditor::CommandInterface *iface =
> qobject_cast<KTextEditor::CommandInterface*>( editor );
> if( iface ) {
> KTextEditor::Command * setHl = iface->queryCommand("set-highlight");
> if (setHl) {
> QString error;
> setHl->exec(view, "set-highlight MediaWiki", error);
> }
> }
>
> You can get a list of commands by switching into the command line with F7 in
> Kate/Kwrte/KDevelop/Kile, ... Just start typing set-
>
> > Also, I want to manually define the context-menu items and any other actions
> > in the interface, so I’m not calling createGUI(m_part). Most KatePart
>
> Yes you can remove actions, see above with the XML file.
>
> > actions I don’t want to provide, so is KatePart the right choice for me
> > nonetheless? Or is there another way (without kparts) of reusing Kate’s
> > text edition widget that fits my use case better?
>
> You can set the context menu with View::setContextMenu:
> http://api.kde.org/4.10-api/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/ktexteditor/html/classKTextEditor_1_1View.html#aac67f3d61e2fcec8369fe31012f27fb0
>
> You can also ask on kwrite-de...@kde.org for further help.
>
> Greetings
> Dominik
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