[Pnet-developers] Pnet (DotGNU) IDE

[Radek Polak]

Hello,
i am playing for some time with idea of writing library that can do 
basic Itegrated Develepment Environment (IDE) stuff.

I basicly want:

- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- method parameters insight
- show documentation for any symbol
- find definition and find references any symbol

This IDE library can be then used for C# Eclipse plugin, Xacc or any 
other IDE.

I was playing with Eclipse and Ilfind for code completion, you can see 
some screenshots http://phoenix.inf.upol.cz/~polakr/pnet/ but to make it 
work really good, I need a C# parser.

First i looked at parser from SharpDevelop or Monodevelop, but they seem 
to be bounded too much with winforms/gtk-sharp.

My second look was at pnet parser. It looks really fine to me and I 
maybe it's excatly  what i need - but i am not sure ;-)
I already know how to load a .dll library or compile some piece of code 
and iterate classes and methods - at this point i can build code 
completion database.

But i want to go further - i have a source code and i want to go inside 
methods. For example i want to know what symbol is at line xxx of source 
code. If it is variable, then i  want to know it's type and where is 
that type defined. I want to know which namespaces are in "using" 
section and so on...

I would like to ask:
Is it possible to use pnet parser for this?
Where should i start if i want do implement let's say syntax 
highlighting for source file?
Can you draft how such a program should look like?
- I think it will be similar to csdoc.
- I think i just need my version for GenerateDocs() function.
- I assume that all the information i want is in ILNode *tree.
- I already know how to itearate types, methods and fields in this tree.
- I don't how to step inside methods and iterate local variables, 
comments and other statements.
- I will be probably using function yygetlinenum() to determine 
position in source file.

Thanks for any help

Radek