Examples of changing Lexer to LexerName

[menees]

Thanks for this fork and support for v5! It's working well for me.

The only difficulty I ran into was that the Lexer property has been marked obsolete, and it says to use the LexerName property instead. I couldn't find any docs or examples about what LexerName supported, so I tried mixed case, uppercase, and lowercase using the old Lexer enum names. The mixed and uppercase names didn't work; the lowercase names did work. So, there's no change request here; I just wanted to post some thanks and some examples for others that need help migrating to v5.

I changed these lines:

this.scintilla.Lexer = Lexer.Sql;
this.scintilla.Lexer = Lexer.Xml;

To these lines:

this.scintilla.LexerName = nameof(Lexer.Sql).ToLower();
this.scintilla.LexerName = nameof(Lexer.Xml).ToLower();

Now all is well. :-)

[VPKSoft]

Great - the enumeration values converted to strings are not all going to work as suggested however. The test application displays the available lexers with the following code:

for (int i = 0; i < Lexilla.GetLexerCount(); i++)
{
    scintilla.AppendText(Lexilla.GetLexerName(i) + Environment.NewLine);
}

And we get:

a68k
abaqus
ada
apdl
as
asciidoc
asm
asn1
asy
au3
ave
avs
baan
bash
batch
bib
blitzbasic
bullant
caml
cil
clarion
clarionnocase
cmake
COBOL
coffeescript
conf
cpp
cppnocase
csound
css
d
dataflex
diff
DMAP
DMIS
ecl
edifact
eiffel
eiffelkw
erlang
errorlist
escript
f77
flagship
forth
fortran
freebasic
fsharp
gap
gdscript
gui4cli
haskell
hollywood
hypertext
ihex
indent
inno
json
julia
kix
kvirc
latex
lisp
literatehaskell
lot
lout
lua
magiksf
makefile
markdown
matlab
maxima
metapost
mmixal
modula
mssql
mysql
nim
nimrod
nncrontab
nsis
null
octave
opal
oscript
pascal
powerbasic
perl
phpscript
PL/M
po
pov
powerpro
powershell
abl
props
ps
purebasic
python
r
raku
rebol
registry
ruby
rust
sas
scriptol
smalltalk
SML
sorcins
specman
spice
sql
srec
stata
fcST
TACL
tads3
TAL
tcl
tcmd
tehex
tex
txt2tags
vb
vbscript
verilog
vhdl
visualprolog
x12
xml
yaml

[desjarlais]

This looks like a discussion that can be closed out, seems like most people know to use LexerName instead of Lexer at this point. Wiki has some examples to hopefully help out. If there is more to this discussion though, please re-open and we can continue the conversation.