# Code listing in Makie.jl figure
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [January 11, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395 "2022-01-11T14:29:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@willtebbutt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/willtebbutt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/1 "2022-01-11T14:29:59Z")
I’m interested in producing a figure using Makie with two sections. One section with a figure, another with a code listing (Julia code, of course). Has anyone tried this before / got any thoughts about how I could go about it?
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### Author:  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/2 "2022-01-11T14:58:06Z")
In ancient times, I used Highlights.jl + `Makie.text` to create a plot with highlighted Julia code… I can take a look if that code is still around somewhere
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### Author:  [@willtebbutt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/willtebbutt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/3 "2022-01-11T15:00:12Z")
That would be amazing, thank you!
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### Author:  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/4 "2022-01-11T17:22:16Z")
Ok, this was interesting…Against all odds, I actually found the code sample…
It was almost 100% still working 😮 But, Makie’s 1 color per char actually regressed, so I had to fix that: [make it possible to have one color per glyph by SimonDanisch · Pull Request #1582 · MakieOrg/Makie.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/pull/1582)
But with that PR this works now:
```julia
using GLMakie
using Colors, Highlights
using Highlights.Format
using Highlights.Tokens
using Highlights.Themes
import Highlights.Themes: has_fg
css2color(str) = parse(RGBA{Float32}, string("#", str))
css2color(c::Themes.RGB) = RGBA{Float32}(c.r/255, c.g/255, c.b/255, 1.0)
function style2color(style, default)
if has_fg(style)
css2color(style.fg)
else
default
end
end
function render_str(
ctx::Format.Context, theme::Format.Theme
)
defaultcolor = if has_fg(theme.base)
css2color(theme.base.fg)
else
RGBA(0f0, 0f0, 0f0, 1f0)
end
colormap = map(s-> style2color(s, defaultcolor), theme.styles)
tocolor = Dict(zip(Tokens. __TOKENS__ , colormap))
colors = RGBA{Float32}[]
io = IOBuffer()
for token in ctx.tokens
t = Tokens. __TOKENS__ [token.value.value]
str = SubString(ctx.source, token.first, token.last)
print(io, str)
append!(colors, fill(tocolor[t], length(str)))
# push!(colors, tocolor[t])
end
String(take!(io)), colors
end
function highlight_text(src::AbstractString, theme = Themes.DefaultTheme)
io = IOBuffer()
render_str(
Highlights.Compiler.lex(src, Lexers.JuliaLexer),
Themes.theme(theme)
)
end
src = """
function test(a, b)
const a = sin(a) + 2.0
return a
end
"""
str, colors = highlight_text(src)
text(str, color=colors)
```
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### Author:  [@willtebbutt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/willtebbutt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/5 "2022-01-11T17:29:20Z")
Incredible. Thanks again for sorting this out!
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### Author:  [@willtebbutt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/willtebbutt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/6 "2022-01-11T18:14:27Z")
Out of interest, what’s Makie’s release cycle like? Will you issue a patch release when your PR is merged, or will it take a while for a new release with the PR included?
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### Author:  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/7 "2022-01-26T17:30:38Z")
Usually we release patch releases after merging a PR… But the change to the mono repo slowed us down a bit - but this change should be released now and I hope to be faster going forward.
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### Author:  [@lazarusA](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lazarusA)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-listing-in-makie-jl-figure/74395/8 "2022-02-22T20:54:54Z")
> [@sdanisch](#):
>
> `import Highlights.Themes: has_fg`
does not work, it seems to be no longer available. However setting to `true` where `has_fg` appears also does the work 😃