Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

Hi,
I was thinking of writing simple Code editor pad like GEdit or Notepad++ but only for PHP and SQL. Now it is for hobby, so I want to use scintilla on wxWidgets and avoid wxWidgets component (purposely). So I was asking what are steps to write such pad. Also any good tutorial will be appreciated.
Currently I'm poking scite and samples at scintilla docs
Thanks :)

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Member Avatar for Rashakil Fol

Just look at the GEdit source code.

Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

Mhh! It seems very hard to do it since I will have to reinvert the whole wheel which I dont think is funny. So I think I will have to go with wxWidgets component. Now I just need the "generic" steps in creating such editor!

Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

Just look at the GEdit source code.

I have never coded editor before (I mean source code editor). So I don't know what is needed. I have seen I at least need to include scintilla.h and scintillalexer.h
I wonder what scintillalexer is all about :-O

Member Avatar for Rashakil Fol

Uh, that's why you should look at the GEdit source code.

Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

Uh, that's why you should look at the GEdit source code.

Let me download an have a look. But I guess I will get lost since it might be massive for new bee in scintilla realm ;)

Member Avatar for template<>

Should be fun, did an editor for debugger before with syntax highlighting etc. Try to design everything in terms of objects, should be good learning experiance. For example create a object model for your editor and implement using classes.

Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

Should be fun, did an editor for debugger before with syntax highlighting etc. Try to design everything in terms of objects, should be good learning experiance. For example create a object model for your editor and implement using classes.

Fun with massive GEdit code? Not at all! I have to retreat to complete wxWidgets solution, I will check the samples :)

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