Chris Colman wrote:
I want to use Scintilla to implement an "in built" editor component of
another application but I need a lot of the functionality that seems to
be only in the SciTE editor source code. The functionality I am
referring to are things like:
- brace matching,
- auto indentation
- reading a property file to set up appearance of editor under
different lexers (eg., C++ or Java)
Most of the code that enables these extra features seems to be in the
SciTE application source, not the Scintilla source but SciTE is a whole
application and I don't want to bring the entire SciTE source into my
app. Is there an easy way to bring in functionality that I need to my
app and only include the Scintilla DLL as is?
Basically, [I think] Neil decided early in the projects' lives which
things should be in the *component* (Scintilla) and which
functionality belonged in an/the *application* (SciTE)... while
clearly both have had functionality added over time, I expect he still
has fairly definite ideas about the "divide".
I expect that most people building editors from Scintilla have
[re-]implemented those application-level pieces that they needed - I
know *I* have. ;)
From your list, Neil at one point responded to a query (of mine)
about having some "interpret this string as a set of style attributes"
call added to the Scintilla API - he wasn't against the idea, but
wanted a pretty flexible external format for the attribute "bundle"
(my terminology), one that would be able to support the features of
his SinkWorld project...
Robert Roessler
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http://www.rftp.com
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