Glimmer Syntax Highlighting Text Widget, Meta-Sample, and Hello, Sash Form!

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.17.4.0 ships with the following changes:

• Glimmer sample app to launch samples (sample of samples meta-sample)
• Syntax Color Highlighting in meta-sample
• Make sash_form weights accept splat array elements (not wrapped in [])
• Make sash_form weights not get set till the closing of the sash_form (to allow putting it above content instead of below as originally required by SWT)
• Replace dependency on tty-markdown gem with dependency on rouge gem instead
• Remove rake tasks `sample:list`, `sample:code` and `sample:run`
• Add rake task `samples` to point to the new Glimmer Meta-Sample
• Have meta-sample load samples from gems

The gist of the changes are these two new samples and the new code_text syntax highlighting custom widget:

• Glimmer Meta-Sample (The Sample of Samples): enables browsing, running, and viewing code of Glimmer samples
• Hello, Sash Form! Sample: demonstrates the sash_form SWT widget
• code_text: a new Glimmer built-in custom widget that displays text with syntax highlighting for the Ruby language. This is used in the Glimmer Meta-Sample mentioned above. It is coded using the SWT built-in StyledText

Glimmer Meta-Sample (The Sample of Samples):

One noteworthy thing to mention about implementing `code_text` is that with Glimmer Ruby syntax, it was the shortest Syntax Highlighting implementation of SWT StyledText I have ever seen compared to various resources online.

Here is the entire view code (notice how the styled_text code in the body is very concise):

Of course, to use you simply type code_text, set text on it (e.g. via data-binding), and the widget handles syntax highlighting automatically:

code_text {

  text bind(some_model, :some_property)

}

Hello, Sash Form!

Happy Glimmering!