MultiHighlight.dpr

I used Delphi 5. I hope its compatible with earlier versions.

The purpose of this demo is to show how to implement the TSynMultiSyn control allowing you to syntax highlight documents with many highlighters based on schemes that you define. I provide this for Web pages - HTML documents with Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript embedded in them. Since not everyone is familiar with these languages, I have provided two text files to load into the Completion and AutoComplete proposals so that you may use the demo at runtime and see it highlight. I am also providing a complete HTML document based on this readme file that you may load into the demo editor to see that highlighted.

- Leon Brown

Steps involved

1. Create new project
2. Place SynEdit control on form
3. Add several higlighters to form
4. Add SynMultiSyn highlighter to form
5. OnFormCreate set SynMultiSyn.DefaultFilter to the main highlighters
6. Select SynMultiSyn so you may modify it in the Object Inspector
7. Set DefaultHighlighter to the main languages highlighter
8. Add Schemes
9. Each scheme needs its own StartExpr and EndExpr expressions and highlighter. So select one of the highlighters you put on the form in step 3. Then supply the keywords/phrases that will begin and end use of this highlighter.