Testing a matching algorithm

[joegas]

Hi Tomas,

i'm using RichTextFX to highlight search matches from a search algorithm i'm testing, somehow the way Chrome shows you the matches when you use the Find function.
For that im using:

styleClassedTextArea.setStyle(...);

I'm getting perfect results for a few amount of matches but it scales badly with larger texts. I was wondering if there's a more efficient way to set the Styles in the given ranges or maybe i'm using the wrong method for my purposes. Taking a look at the source I already started using setStyle instead of setStyleClass because of the second one creating a new ArrayList on every call.

Anyway, still great features and perhaps you have a tip for me.

[TomasMikula]

Hello,

thanks for choosing RichTextFX.

A more efficient way of setting multiple style ranges at once is setStyleSpans. Note, however, that this way you also have to specify style for all the intermediate (non-highlighted) ranges.

To obtain a StyleSpans instance, you can use StyleSpansBuilder. You can see an example in the JavaKeywords demo.

[joegas]

Wow Tomas, thanks for the quick answer: the process of highlighting went from over 10 mins to under a sec. I'm impressed.