Pointers are broken in json reading

[Moosems]

I set up a json file as a theme and used pointers to make future editing simpler. The issue is that I got an error.

Error:

  File "/Users/Moosems/Desktop/DIP-dev/LangEditors.py", line 22, in __init__
    CodeEditor.__init__(self, master, language="Python", autofocus=True, highlighter=self.highlighter, font=self.editor_font, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tkcode/codeeditor.py", line 23, in __init__
    codebox.BaseCodeBox.__init__(
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tkcode/codebox.py", line 94, in __init__
    self.update_highlighter(highlighter)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tkcode/codebox.py", line 280, in update_highlighter
    self.config(**general_props)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/tkcode/codebox.py", line 429, in configure
    tk.Text.configure(self, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1675, in configure
    return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1665, in _configure
    self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "{'$ref': '#/ColoringLight/bg'}"

Json file:

{
    "ColoringLight":
    {
        "bg": "#ffffff",
        "fg": "#4f4c4d",
        "TokenText": "#544619",
        "TokenKeyword": "#2f33ff",
        "TokenPunctuation": "#dd8ced",
        "TokenName": "#b6c23f",
        "TokenOperator": "#f6a656",
        "TokenComment": "#2cbe48",
        "TokenLiteralNumber": "#ab4bbe",
        "TokenLiteralString": "#f45159"
    },

    "general":
    {
        "background":{"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/bg"},
        "foreground": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/fg"},
        "insertbackground": "#c8894a",
        "insertwidth": 1,
        "highlightthickness": 0,
        "borderwidth": 0
    },
    
    
    "selection":
    {
    },
    

    "syntax":
    {
        "Token.Text": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenText"},
        "Token.Other": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenText"},
        "Token.Error": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenText"},
        "Token.Whitespace": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenText"},
        "Token.Escape": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenText"},
        
        "Token.Keyword": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Constant": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Declaration": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Namespace": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Pseudo": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Reserved": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Type": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        "Token.Keyword.Other": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenKeyword"},
        
        "Token.Punctuation": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenPunctuation"},

        "Token.Name.Attribute": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Builtin": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Builtin.Pseudo": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Class": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Constant": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Decorator": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Entity": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Exception": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Function": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Function.Magic": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Label": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Namespace": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Other": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Tag": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Variable": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Variable.Class": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Variable.Global": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Variable.Instance": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},
        "Token.Name.Variable.Magic": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenName"},

        "Token.Operator": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenOperator"},
        "Token.Operator.Word": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenOperator"},
        
        "Token.Comment": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Hashbang": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Multiline": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Preproc": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Preprocfile": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Single": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        "Token.Comment.Special": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenComment"},
        
        "Token.Literal.Number.Bin": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        "Token.Literal.Number.Float": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        "Token.Literal.Number.Hex": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        "Token.Literal.Number.Integer": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        "Token.Literal.Number.Integer.Long": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        "Token.Literal.Number.Oct": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralNumber"},
        
        "Token.Literal.String.Affix": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Char": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Delimeter": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Doc": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Double": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Escape": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Heredoc": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Interpol": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Other": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Regex": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Single": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"},
        "Token.Literal.String.Symbol": {"$ref": "#/ColoringLight/TokenLiteralString"}
    }
}

[rdbende]

TBH, I've never heard of JSON pointers before. But if it isn't working, it's an issue with Python's json module, since tkcode uses that to get the colors and it's not something, I could solve in tkcode.

[Moosems]

@rdbende I opened this stackoverflow question and I'll let you know if anything becomes of it

[Moosems]

@rdbende An answer was given that I think will work for tkcode

[Moosems]

you can use the jsonref module instead of the json module and it should fix the issue