RE: Digest for EUforum at topica.com, issue 5446
> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:24:53 -0800
> From: petelomax at fastmail.fm
> Subject: Re: Edita 0.2.6
>
>
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:11:52 -0800, "CChris" <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> said:
> > Hi Pete!
> > I just downloaded the editor; here are a few things that I
> would expect
> > or love to see in future versions:
> >
> > For some of the features [above], I cn share code from my
> personal much
> > enhanced copy of Visual Euphoria.
>
> I am a little busy with something else at the moment, but if
> you want to
> play with the source, if you get anything working just send
> me the full
> source in a zip & I'll apply the changes.
> >
> > 1/ Add folding commands to (a submenu of) context menu;
> Should be easy enough, duplicate E_Fold+4 to M_Ctxt in
> eamenus.ew, with
> all
> handling of them duplicated.
>
> > 2/ Expanding a fold permanently emoves it; it would be nice
> to be able to
> > expand a folded area, tweak or peek, then refold the area without
> > selecting it explicitly;
> Probably quite easy: save lines of last expand (in Fold() in
> edita.exw),
> adjust them in updateQJ(), and implement a re-fold function.
>
> > 3/ Showing the first line(s) of the contents of a folded area in a
> > tooltip would reduce the need to unfold thelm.
> Not sure; I don't know tooltips that well. I currently rely on
> TTF_IDISHWND
> rather than rect, but to be honest I'm only guessing it would not be
> very
> difficult.
>
> > 4/ In an Euphoria source file, display current routine, global and
> > relative line numbers in the status bar. More useful than
> the current date, which
> > the tray clock already shows :p
> Well, I auto-hide my tray clock :p setScrollBars() in edita.exw is not
> likely
> to tax you much 
>
> > 5/ A "match between delimiters" tool (like in ConTEXT)
> would be welcome.
> Sorry, no idea what you mean. If you get stuck let me know.
>
> > 6/ I'd expect CCA to show control blocks with stabdard indents, and
> > possibly derive some sort of flow chart from the source.
> Erm, CCA is really raw, works on any source, not just Eu.
>
> > 7/ A cross reference tool would be very, very cool, even
> more so if it
> > would work between several opened project files (where is
> global integer
> > returnFlag defined???);
> Adding a search project? checkbox to the find in files
> function is on my
> to-do list.
> Enhancing extractAnyRoutineInformation() in eaqj.ew is also possible,
> though eg global boolean returnFlag (ie user-defined types)
> is unlikely
> to be easy, though not necessarily impossible, but may require that
> backGroundProcessing() [in eaqj]/getModifiedFile() [in
> eaedb.e] process
> files in project order [good luck trying that one!]
>
> > About translations: Not all the translation files are
> complete. This sets
> > off a warning
> > on opening the app, and causes a strange mixture of translated and
> > untranslated items
> > in menus. How to deal with this?
> Erm, complete the translation files ) If using english, then you
> don't
> get any warning (unless I've coded xl("fred") and not put it in
> ealng_en.txt);
> if using any other language, it is meant to be a prompt for someone to
> finish
> the translation (and send me a copy)...
>
> Entries are deliberately left missing, because that is the way
> Translation
> Assistant is supposed to work (locate them by F4).
>
> > Of course, this is a good quality app, but not with the
> features that
> > would make me switch to it from vim or context.
> The number one reason ought to be that you can make changes
> such as the
> ones
> above. Maybe you can in vim but I'm pretty sure you can't in
> context[?].
>
> > Also, you could disble syntax hilight in text immedietelly
> following the
> > "include" statement, so as not to erroneously hilight "global.e" for
> > instance.
> True, easynclr.e already changes handling somewhat after finding the
> include keyword and sets a flag (resetBackSlash) that could be used to
> avoid further processing.
>
> > Keep on the good work!
> This may be your chance...
>
> Thanks for the feedback, I'll do what I can when I have time,
> Pete
> --
>
<snip>
Well, I just looked at my files for an enhanced edit control for Windows
(uses win32lib). They may not be as nightmarish as I remembered, so I could
consider restarting development on it.
When it is ready, I'll update VE and release a working app. As my VE will
be based on this control, the two will progress in parallel.
Joe (spent_memory), are you still around? (original author of the app)
And when this is done I can try adding the syntax helping tools I mentioned
to Edita; they were working last time I tried, except for the xref tool). So
this is not for next week. And if everything goes well, I'll try my hand
translating the control to wxEuphoria. End 2006?
btw: Derek: I really need to know how the interface for custom controls
would evolve in the next release of win32lib, for obvious reasons...
What I can do soon is sending you completed translation files for french and
probably spanish.
CChris
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