OpenEuphoria

Re: wxEditor Project

• Posted by Mike Sywensky <michaelsy at yahoo?com> May 06, 2008
• 673 views

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> 
> As a change of pace, I'm starting to host some of my projects on SourceForge.
> My goal is to get others involved with my projects, so that many of my ideas
> can get off the ground. Otherwise, I seem to start projects on my own only to
> have them fizzle out as I lose interest.
> 
> The first project of this is wxEditor. With Pete having dropped off the face
> of the planet (and Edita with him), and Euphoria 4.0 on the horizon, I figured
> I'd strike while the iron's hot. I just registered the project, so it's still
> in pending status. I'll collect the code I have so far and get it posted once
> the project's approved.
> 
> <a
> href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxeditor/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxeditor/</a>
> 
> 
> Matt... this means I (we?) need to get wxStyledTextControl working. My efforts
> have been rather fruitless, and I just end up mangling C++ code in hopes I'll
> get something working. Right now, wxEditor operates as a basic text editor
> with
> multiple tabs, using wxNotebook and wxTextCtrl. I'd like to get the syntax
> highlighting
> working from the get-go. I see that as a major benefit to a code editor.
> 
> 
> -Greg

I've been thinking about creating an editor as well and checked out your code
yesterday.  Very nice!

What has stopped me is the same issue you have... no real editor component.  
From what I read, wxSTC uses a pretty old version of scintilla.  It may make
 more sense
to wrap wxScintilla instead, although the only Windows compiler supported is
Visual C++.

If you are limiting the scope of the editor to Euphoria, either component would
do, but
I was planning on targeting SQL as well, since for me they go hand in hand. 
This would
require unicode support, which (I believe) wxSTC does not have.

If someone figures out how to compile wxScintilla using watcom, I would be
willing to
help wrap it.