How to use Netbeans platform syntax highlight with JEditorPane?
- by Volta
There are many tutorials online giving very complex or non-working examples on this. It seems that people recommend others to use the syntax highlighters offered by netbeans but I am totally puzzled on how to do so!
I have checked many many sites on this and the best I can find is :
http://www.antonioshome.net/kitchen/netbeans/nbms-standalone.php
However I am still not able to use this example (as it is aimed to people who don't want to use the Netbeans platform but just a portion of it) and I am still not sure if I can
just use syntax highlighting in a simple plug 'n play way. For example netbeans supports
several language highlights by default, can I just use the highlighters in a JEditorPane to parse Ruby/Python/Java for example ? or do I need to write my own parser :-| ?
I will really appreciate a small simple example on how to plug syntax highlight in a standalone application using the netbeans platform.