Thanks for taking the time to read this. I have a finished piece of work, but I'm having a problem getting my compiled application to run in Windows Vista with the Syntax Editor.
The program runs fine in XP, and (weirdly) in Vista within my VS2005 development environment.
Running in Vista (even in Admin mode) generates a "This program has stopped working" error. I have located the line that cause the problem. In the "code behind" designer.vb page the problem is caused when assigning the DynamicParser to the SyntaxEditor's SyntaxParser property. This is despite the syntax rules I have created (if any).
Msgbox("hasn't crashed yet")
Me.Editor1.SyntaxParser = Me.DynamicParser1 <--- crashes on this line
Msgbox("you'll never see this message")
Me.Editor1.TabIndex = 0
Me.Editor1.Text = "Editor1"
'
'DynamicParser1
'
Me.DynamicParser1.TokenRules = New EO.WinForm.SyntaxEditor.Parser.TokenRule(-1) {}
To replicate the error:
Create a new project
Drop a SyntaxEditor onto the form
Drop a DynamicParser onto the form
Assign the DynamicParser to the SyntaxParser property of the Editor
Build solution
Run application in the Release folder
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NB:
My goal is to create an Editor that has the following syntax colouring rules (which I have acheived using the DynamicParser):
Tags <h4>, <p>, <li>, <ul>, <ol>, <br>, <i>, <b>, <u> (and closing versions) should be bold and coloured green;
Tags <h3>Allowed Heading 1</h3>, <h3>Allowed Heading 2</h3> (i.e. a handful of specific headings) bold, larger and coloured green;
Tags of any other kind should be coloured red (as the target HTML of the edited text only supports this tiny sub set of HTML). This includes <h3>Disallowed Heading</h3>.
So if anyone can come up with a solution that circumvents using the DynamicParser, that works in Windows Vista: please suggest away!