Code Comments Folding Block Issue - Please Help!

[mattbriggsuk]

Hi,

How is it possible to disable folding blocks within code comments?

        // Code Comments
        e.SetFoldingMarkers(@"/\*(.*)", @"\*/", RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        // Example Code
        e.SetFoldingMarkers(@"foo",     @"bar", RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

There should not be any folding markers against foo-bar within /* */ comments, .i.e:

/*
foo
bar
*/

I want to avoid using RegEx Lookbehind and Lookaheads, as this is likely to cause performance issues.

What would be the best approach?

• Introduce an overload within the SetFoldingMarkers method to indicate no sub-folding blocks?
• Do something within fctb_VisibleRangeChanged, fctb_VisibleRangeChangedDelayed, fctb_TextChangedDelayed etc.?
• Do something with the fctb.FindEndOfFoldingBlockStrategy ?
• Something else?

The bug exists within the PowerfulCSharpEditor example provided:

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to give my end-users the best user experience possible,

[Hexman768]

@mattbriggsuk The FCTB control seems to have been designed explicitly to support code folding blocks for comments that take up multiple lines.

There could possibly be a feature created to allow this behavior to be enabled/disabled. However, I do not have any plans to start on that work anytime soon.

[Hexman768]

@mattbriggsuk I do believe however, that it should be setting folder markers for the end of the comment also, not just the start. I will have to investigate how that behavior works in the control and post an update here.