How to make marker annotations in Eclipse extend to the whole width of the editor?
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I'm writing a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that adds a custom marker annotation to highlight portions of the code. Currently, I use textStylePreferenceValue="BOX" in the org.eclipse.ui.editors.markerAnnotationSpecification and get a changed background color that ends at the line-break for each line. That introduces a lot of visual noise, and I would like to have the color to extend to the whole width of the editor. How can I achieve this?
If this is not possible at the moment, what would be the next steps to add this functionality to the platform?
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eclipse eclipse-plugin eclipse-rcp
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I'm writing a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that adds a custom marker annotation to highlight portions of the code. Currently, I use textStylePreferenceValue="BOX" in the org.eclipse.ui.editors.markerAnnotationSpecification and get a changed background color that ends at the line-break for each line. That introduces a lot of visual noise, and I would like to have the color to extend to the whole width of the editor. How can I achieve this?
If this is not possible at the moment, what would be the next steps to add this functionality to the platform?
This is what I have:
This is what I want:
eclipse eclipse-plugin eclipse-rcp
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Tobias B.
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I'm writing a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that adds a custom marker annotation to highlight portions of the code. Currently, I use textStylePreferenceValue="BOX" in the org.eclipse.ui.editors.markerAnnotationSpecification and get a changed background color that ends at the line-break for each line. That introduces a lot of visual noise, and I would like to have the color to extend to the whole width of the editor. How can I achieve this?
If this is not possible at the moment, what would be the next steps to add this functionality to the platform?
This is what I have:
This is what I want:
eclipse eclipse-plugin eclipse-rcp
asked Nov 4 at 12:08
Tobias B.
234
I'm writing a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that adds a custom marker annotation to highlight portions of the code. Currently, I use textStylePreferenceValue="BOX" in the org.eclipse.ui.editors.markerAnnotationSpecification and get a changed background color that ends at the line-break for each line. That introduces a lot of visual noise, and I would like to have the color to extend to the whole width of the editor. How can I achieve this?
If this is not possible at the moment, what would be the next steps to add this functionality to the platform?
This is what I have:
This is what I want:
eclipse eclipse-plugin eclipse-rcp
eclipse eclipse-plugin eclipse-rcp
asked Nov 4 at 12:08
Tobias B.
234
asked Nov 4 at 12:08
Tobias B.
234
asked Nov 4 at 12:08
Tobias B.
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asked Nov 4 at 12:08
Tobias B.
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After researching further, it seems that this is not possible at the moment, at least not easily. The relevant Eclipse sub-project seems to be "platform.text" (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/). The possible textStylePreferenceValues are defined in the class "org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AnnotationPreference", and how to paint them is defined in the class "org.eclipse.jface.text.source.AnnotationPainter".
A low level solution could be to use a LineBackgroundListener together with the StyledText object of the editor.
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After researching further, it seems that this is not possible at the moment, at least not easily. The relevant Eclipse sub-project seems to be "platform.text" (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/). The possible textStylePreferenceValues are defined in the class "org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AnnotationPreference", and how to paint them is defined in the class "org.eclipse.jface.text.source.AnnotationPainter".
A low level solution could be to use a LineBackgroundListener together with the StyledText object of the editor.
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Tobias B.
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After researching further, it seems that this is not possible at the moment, at least not easily. The relevant Eclipse sub-project seems to be "platform.text" (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/). The possible textStylePreferenceValues are defined in the class "org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AnnotationPreference", and how to paint them is defined in the class "org.eclipse.jface.text.source.AnnotationPainter".
A low level solution could be to use a LineBackgroundListener together with the StyledText object of the editor.
answered 2 days ago
Tobias B.
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up vote
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After researching further, it seems that this is not possible at the moment, at least not easily. The relevant Eclipse sub-project seems to be "platform.text" (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/). The possible textStylePreferenceValues are defined in the class "org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AnnotationPreference", and how to paint them is defined in the class "org.eclipse.jface.text.source.AnnotationPainter".
A low level solution could be to use a LineBackgroundListener together with the StyledText object of the editor.
answered 2 days ago
Tobias B.
234
After researching further, it seems that this is not possible at the moment, at least not easily. The relevant Eclipse sub-project seems to be "platform.text" (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.text/). The possible textStylePreferenceValues are defined in the class "org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AnnotationPreference", and how to paint them is defined in the class "org.eclipse.jface.text.source.AnnotationPainter".
A low level solution could be to use a LineBackgroundListener together with the StyledText object of the editor.
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