no syntax highlighting with dot ?

[daniel]

I am encountering the following problem. I have syntax highlighting set up for 6 categories of keywords in Textpad (4.5 / 4.6). It used to work ok, but now I get the following behavior:
If I type:

String : the word "String" appears colored, as it should
String+ : as soon as I type the "+", "String" becomes colored, as it should
String. : if "String" is then followed by a dot, it is NO LONGER colored !

In other words, even though a certain keyword or class name is colored according to the highlighting rules in place, when typing a dot after the class name the highlighting disappears. This is a problem, because whenever I need to use static methods, I want the class name to be colored. I'm wondering if anybody has seen something like this before and whether this could be fixed.

Thanks.

[daniel]

OK, found the problem.