[MonoDevelop] A question on dynamically change the SyntaxMode of Mono.TextEditor.Document

[Mike Krüger]

Hi

> "editor.Document.SyntaxMode = mode;", I tried "editor.Repaint ()" or
> "editor.Document.CommitUpdateAll", but find them didn't work.
> 


CommitUpdateAll should work. Try a
SyntaxModeService.WaitUpdate(editor.Document) call before the
CommitUpdateAll.

btw. syntax mode can be set with editor.Document.MimeType =
"text/x-csharp" much faster.

Regards
Mike

> // --- source ---
> 
> using Mono.TextEditor;
> using Mono.TextEditor.Highlighting;
> 
> public partial class MainWindow : Gtk.Window
> {
> 	public MainWindow () : base(Gtk.WindowType.Toplevel)
> 	{
> 		Build ();
> 		var editor = new TextEditor ();
> 		vbox1.PackStart (editor, true, true, 0);
> 
> 		var btn = new Button ();
> 		btn.Label = "debug";
> 		btn.Clicked += delegate {
> 			var mode = SyntaxModeService.GetSyntaxMode ("text/x-csharp");
> 			editor.Document.SyntaxMode = mode;
> 		};
> 		vbox1.PackStart (btn, false, false, 0);
> 
> 		this.Focus = editor;
> 	}
> 	...
> }
> 
> //--- end of code ---
> 
> Thanks