RE: [FR-devel] Editor API?

[Rich Kilmer]

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> Behalf Of Hal E. Fulton
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: [FR-devel] Editor API?
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> 
> (snippage)
> 
> I suppose I first have to understand 1) the Scintilla
> widget and 2) what Rich and Laurent have done at the
> higher level?
> 
> And another thing -- if we're moving away from FXRuby,
> does it make sense to tie the API to Scintilla at all?
> (I'm ignorant of Scintilla, but isn't it Fox-specific?)
> 

Hey Hal...

Scintilla is a cross-platform (GTK/Win32/soon OS/X??) native editor
control (c/c++).  It is very general and VERY api rich (no pun intended
;-)  It has been embeded in Fox (and thus FXRuby) as well as wxWindows
(and wxRuby...) I actually used it early on on SWin/VRuby on Win32
before the FreeRIDE project really began...so I know it works there too.


The code editor widget is one of the most important components in an
IDE, and I think that Scintilla is definitely the way to go here (see
http://www.scintilla.org ).  Anyway, Laurent and I need to agree on the
high-level API prior to your writing about it...that is something I hope
we can work on soon.

BTW:  Are you going to be at RubyConf 2.0???

-rich