[texworks] Alternate Editor Components? Was Re: Problem with line mangling

Charlie Sharpsteen chuck at sharpsteen.net
Thu Jul 7 09:03:07 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is the web site of the Qt editor component called QCodeEdit, it
> may be of no use as it mioghht bnow allow for text colouring ..
>
> "QCodeEdit is a framework designed to make edition of source code easy
> for both users and developers.
>
> "It is written in C++ using the Qt 4 framework which make it
> cross-platform.
>
> "QCodeEdit has been designed for three main purposes : efficiency,
> flexibility and ease of use.
>
> :Indeed QCodeEdit is much more lightweight and significantly faster
> than QTextEdit/QTextDocument. However it also has different goals and
> thus limitations. QCodeEdit is meant to work with source files and not
> any kind of rich text like QTextEdit handles so well."
> ...
>
> http://qcodeedit.edyuk.org/?q=node/1
>
> Paul
>

QScintilla may be an option as well if we are looking for a code editor
framework:

    http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/qscintilla/intro

Pretty well battle-tested.

-Charlie
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