Re: [orion-dev] Get text style of selected char

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the answer.  I implemented this by using the TextLine
instance for the current line and then iterating through its <span>
elements until I find the right one.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Mark Macdonald <mamacdon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>
> AFAIK there is no API on the editor for doing this. Styles are write only.
>
> Depending on the text styler that generated the style, there is sometimes an
> auxiliary data structure that you can dig into to find out style info. For
> example, the default textStyler.js keeps a list of begin/end offsets of
> block comments. And the ModeApplier (in mirror.js) that we use to apply
> CodeMirror highlight modes stores all the style ranges for each line (ouch).
> You can dig around in those if you have access to the styler... but it is
> not an API.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi Orion team,
>>
>> I'm looking to find the text style of a given offset in the orion
>> editor (eg- is this offset inside of a comment, a string, a keyword,
>> etc?).  Is there some API to do this already, or do I have to dig wade
>> through the html elements to find it? Or is the best way to create my
>> own scanner?
>>
>> More specifically, I don't really need to know about the html, I just
>> need to know if the current caret position is inside a comment,
>> string, or not.
>>
>> Thanks for the help on this.
>>
>> Andrew
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> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi Orion team,
>>
>> I'm looking to find the text style of a given offset in the orion
>> editor (eg- is this offset inside of a comment, a string, a keyword,
>> etc?).  Is there some API to do this already, or do I have to dig wade
>> through the html elements to find it? Or is the best way to create my
>> own scanner?
>>
>> More specifically, I don't really need to know about the html, I just
>> need to know if the current caret position is inside a comment,
>> string, or not.
>>
>> Thanks for the help on this.
>>
>> Andrew
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