a Text Editor with line numbers...

[rh]

Due to the limitations of my wrapper around QTextEdit I started porting QScintilla to Qt4.

Yea, i played with porting QScintilla to Qt4. Of course if qt3to4 did all the work, it would be too easy, but there is still tons of hand-massaging you have to do. Porting from scratch using Riverbank's code as a guideline might in the end be the best way to go.

[fullmetalcoder]

Yea, i played with porting QScintilla to Qt4. Of course if qt3to4 did all the work, it would be too easy, but there is still tons of hand-massaging you have to do. Porting from scratch using Riverbank's code as a guideline might in the end be the best way to go.

Where to find Riverbak's code? Would be happy to find an easy way!!!

[elcuco]

QScintilla does not support anything but Latin1 and thus it's unusable for me and many others.

[fullmetalcoder]

I ported QScintilla by hand from Qt3 to Qt4, it compiled without even one warning.
I then tried to use it in a very simple program and it linked with no problem, the window appeared...
but not the cursor
then tryed to copy from another editor... NO WAY!!! but the context menu displayed...
then tryed to typoe by hand a few words... NO WAY!!! What the fuck is that???
I spent 4hours porting something that doesn't work!!!

[elcuco]

I ported QScintilla by hand from Qt3 to Qt4, it compiled without even one warning.
I then tried to use it in a very simple program and it linked with no problem, the window appeared...
but not the cursor
then tryed to copy from another editor... NO WAY!!! but the context menu displayed...
then tryed to typoe by hand a few words... NO WAY!!! What the fuck is that???
I spent 4hours porting something that doesn't work!!!

release the code or shut up...

at last for the first editor!

[fullmetalcoder]

which code??? buggy QScintilla or working QTextEdit???

QTextEdit based now highlight current line in cyan but there's still a twist:
no simple way to make it highlight the whole line, as in Dev-C++ for example.
any ideas on how to do that?

cheers

[elcuco]

I would like to see a code based on QTextEdit, because of the reasons I explained before. But that's me

[fullmetalcoder]

I should be able to post it tomorrow.

No solutions comes to me about current line colouring but I implemented the basis of a breakpoint management system.

Seems to progress!!!

[rh]

If you want to see more information on scintilla implementations, you may want to check out:

http://www.codeproject.com

and search for "scintilla". Of course these will be implemented with MFC or in C#, but you might get some ideas.

P.S. CodeProject's search isn't very good; you'll get more hits googling the CodeProject site.

[fullmetalcoder]

sorry rh but I don't think porting QScintilla would be a good way to reach my goal.

Elcuco, it's your turn to shut up! Have a look at the code and think before giving feedbacks...

[elcuco]

I should be able to post it tomorrow.

No solutions comes to me about current line colouring but I implemented the basis of a breakpoint management system.

Seems to progress!!!

Original message said:
You said tomorrow on the 22, now it's 24.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Now I do see the code...
comments tomrrow... /me shuts up now.

[fullmetalcoder]

Original message said:
You said tomorrow on the 22, now it's 24.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Now I do see the code...
comments tomrrow... /me shuts up now.

Who's the best ???
Just kidding!

Ok implementation is not that perfect!
a corrected version is coming soon!

[elcuco]

meanwhile you is the king... me sux0rz...

don't worry, this will change over time... you just wait...

[fullmetalcoder]

here is the new version.

- few bugs fixes
- line number calculation working fine
- lines highlighting done inside devhighlighter

have fun!

edit : removed attached .zip; copyright notice wasn't correct !

[Xagen]

I should be able to post it tomorrow.

No solutions comes to me about current line colouring but I implemented the basis of a breakpoint management system.

Seems to progress!!!

Hi! And where is the code?
All of us want to have a look at it...
Thanks.

[fullmetalcoder]

Hi! And where is the code?
All of us want to have a look at it...
Thanks.

There was a twist in the copyright notice so I removed all zip files yesterday.

I used this time to :
- fix highlighting (handles floats and comments after a preprocessor)
- fix find & replace
- add a built-in loading/saving API
- add a print function
- add both of these to context menu

But current line highlighting (and breakpoints/errors as well) is still ugly!!!
No way making it kepp coloring after last character!!!!

Have fun and please give feedback (and hints about background coloring) !!!

[elcuco]

In your pro file, there is a line:

TARGET += neweditor

TARGET += neweditor

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

change it to

TARGET = neweditor

TARGET = neweditor

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

(remove the +). Otherwise it does not compile on my system. The loading is still wayy.... slow... I compared it to my code (which you trashed...) and not that fast ... my code can load much more files (and highlight them properly....), I know for sure it can load C/C++/CSS/XML/Makefile... I need to investigate why it fails on bash/sh... (to the forum, I plan on release it soon, don't worry).

The issue with the one context menu is interesting... but now with 10 commands, it's hard to find the correct item. You should start using submenus or do a window menu, like people expect.

Besides this, this is great... nice work!

[fullmetalcoder]

The loading is still wayy.... slow... I compared it to my code (which you trashed...) and not that fast ... my code can load much more files (and highlight them properly....), I know for sure it can load C/C++/CSS/XML/Makefile... I need to investigate why it fails on bash/sh... (to the forum, I plan on release it soon, don't worry).

Don't say my editor is slow compared to mine:
yours take more than 50 seconds to load the qrc_new-editor.cpp file produced by your project (104kb) while mine manage to load it (and highlight it as well) in less than 4 seconds !!!! Impressive isn't it?
Anyway, apart from that SLOOOOOOOOOOOW loading, your version isn't that bad (and I don't worry about release dates : I'm quite patient).

[quote=elcuco]
The issue with the one context menu is interesting... but now with 10 commands, it's hard to find the correct item. You should start using submenus or do a window menu, like people expect.
[quote]

It's only a core editor! The IDE is already on rails and it, of course , includes a window menu. Did you try Dev-C++, there's not 10 items but about 20!!

[rianquinn]

QTextEdit was not really designed to be an editor. The best thing to do to make a good editor is make one from scratch using parts of Qt's code as a baseline That's what I am doing currently