how to use codeedit to edit acctual GD scripts

Spider55YT · May 24, 2025, 5:57pm

Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

i need a way to use the code edit node to edit an actual script and also need it to display the right colors i tried looking it up and other stuff but i couldn’t figure it out. i need this for teaching Godot at a school and i know there is the thing Gd quest made but i chose not to use that because this will give me more experience and it will help me make it fit in better with the lessons and its summer so schools out so i’m trying to make this within a 3 month period

gertkeno · May 24, 2025, 7:44pm

You may have to re-implement most of the C++ syntax highlighter generation in GDScript if you want to match colors. Supporting only the one language lets you cut some corners though.

github.com/godotengine/godot

editor/plugins/script_editor_plugin.cpp

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          void EditorSyntaxHighlighter::_bind_methods() {
          	ClassDB::bind_method(D_METHOD("_get_edited_resource"), &EditorSyntaxHighlighter::_get_edited_resource);
          
          	GDVIRTUAL_BIND(_get_name)
          	GDVIRTUAL_BIND(_get_supported_languages)
          }
          
          ////
          
          void EditorStandardSyntaxHighlighter::_update_cache() {
          	highlighter->set_text_edit(text_edit);
          	highlighter->clear_keyword_colors();
          	highlighter->clear_member_keyword_colors();
          	highlighter->clear_color_regions();
          
          	highlighter->set_symbol_color(EDITOR_GET("text_editor/theme/highlighting/symbol_color"));
          	highlighter->set_function_color(EDITOR_GET("text_editor/theme/highlighting/function_color"));
          	highlighter->set_number_color(EDITOR_GET("text_editor/theme/highlighting/number_color"));
          	highlighter->set_member_variable_color(EDITOR_GET("text_editor/theme/highlighting/member_variable_color"));

What is your end-goal? Big picture; what is the project about?