Syntax Highlighting Might Be Desirable in the Command Center Output

[TheBizzle]

From @TheBizzle on April 17, 2013 23:3

Now that we have syntax highlighting in the input box, it might seem desirable to have coloring in the command center output. There are two things that complicate that at the moment:

• The input box and the chat outputs are (purposely) styled very differently. Currently, the black (default) text color looks fine in the (white) input box, but would be very difficult to read against the (dark gray) background of the Command Center output entries.
• As far as I've been able to tell, getting the Ace-highlighted HTML requires creating an HTML element, turning it into an Ace element through JavaScript, and making it visible at least for a brief moment in order to force the initialization of the Ace element.

Some planning of how to circumvent these problems should be done before attempting to syntax color output code.

Copied from original issue: NetLogo/Galapagos#35

[TheBizzle]

From @qiemem on April 18, 2013 18:50

We talked about this in person, but just to have it in writing, CodeMirror supports this via its runmode addon.