OpenEuphoria

Re: Suggestion for syntax-colored editors

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> May 19, 2004
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On 19 May 2004, at 1:48, Tommy Carlier wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be>
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > I pass. Post a demo which proves it faster. )
> > Maybe then I'll believe you.
> > 
> > I took on Mike's editor and have done very little with the core
> > innards, such as display, concentrated more on up-front additions.
> > 
> > To draw this to its logical conclusion, you need a bitmap for every
> > character in every colour, along with the several (standard keywords)
> > you mention side-by-side in one block, plus what next?- one for every
> > variable name in the current source perhaps?
> 
> No, you don't. You just use bitmaps for the standard keywords. When rendering
> the text, you use the traditional method of drawing text for all the normal
> text
> (variables, comments, strings, ...), and only blit bitmaps for the standard
> keywords. This way, you also have to switch text-color ( = create a new
> Pen/Brush) a lot less.

then you cannot copy/paste the text, because it's text + pictures.

Kat