QE_with_colours' evolution

[HSE]

Hi all!

Following JJ's 2012 ideas it's possible to improve amateurs experience with QE using just a little of colors. Very rustic but I think useful.

..., but OP wants something completely different: automatic syntax highlighting à la Iczelion.

I can't wait to see what OP can do 

In order to achieve that, you need the QE plugin interface, i.e. write a DLL that does the highlighting using the hRichEdit in-process. Quite a different story.

I know, it's a challenge  . But RadAsm and many others make that very well (I think).

- here most recent version:

[jj2007]

I've extracted it to \Masm32\plugins\stream1.dll - how do you activate it?

[HSE]

Edit menus.ini in masm32 directory and were you want write:

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stream1, {e}\plugins\stream1.dll

or create a new category:

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[MyCategory]
fantasyname, {e}\plugins\stream1.dll


Open a new instance of QE and open an assembly file (.asm or .inc), after that in the menu you execute the plugin.

[jj2007]

Works like a charm

[HSE]

Thanks JJ for testing 

[Ravi Kiran]

Works like a charm

it's working sir.

[HSE]

it's working sir.

That it's the previous version. Version here also process strings, just because strings can contain semicolons.

[HSE]

Corrected remotion of spaces after quotation, and now brackets, etc (easy to modify if you don't like that). Files updated in first post.

[daydreamer]

great 

[jj2007]

It works fine

Now your next step will be to harmonise it with [Colours] in OllyDbg.ini

[HSE]

Thanks 

Now your next step will be to harmonise it with [Colours] in OllyDbg.ini

qEditor don't need a plugin to do that 

[HSE]

Hi!!

Here I added the Iczelion procedure.

..., but OP wants something completely different: automatic syntax highlighting à la Iczelion.

That work perfectly until you close the MessageBox.

I'm still not very succefull taking Richedit's Font and creating the GDI font
But work for me because plugin is builded with my qEditor's settings: fixedsys, height =12, weight= 500.

Location of wordfile.txt must be qEditor's location.

[jj2007]

Works fine with a 640k source

[HSE]

Thanks JJ!

The theoretical size of the file is around 800 Kb (asuming RTF = plain text * 3). But can be increased changing memory allocated:

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  invoke SysAllocStringByteLen, NULL, 2500000 <-- memory for plain text file
  mov hReo$, eax

  invoke SysAllocStringByteLen, NULL, 2500000 <-- memory for RTF
  mov hRes$, eax


There are some glitchs perhaps because RTF is not well formed, but most likely because QE is optimized for plain text 

That make interesting to use only Iczelion procedure, wich surprisingly work fine just subclassing Richedit.

Of course look better RTF  and not interfere with most QE functions. Perhaps both plugins could be of interest.

[HSE]

There was some problem forming RTF, solved now.

The process can detect "comment" now. It's maked in a very nice spaghetti style  , still not using  Hutch's Finite State Machines.

Updated in first post.