FOX-USERS: Re: Python GUIs: Abandoning TkInter and welcoming wxPyth

[Mike C. Fletcher]

From: "Mike C. Fletcher" <mfletch at vrtelecom.com>

I should clarify, when I'm speaking about "rich" text editing widgets, I'm
talking about colouring/styling, font selection, selection management, and
preferably some sort of layout engine.  Rich text as in RTF format, or HTML
can both easily be built on top of a generic "rich" text widget.

My personal ideal would be to allow a cascading style sheet-style layout
system.

Looking at the code for FXEditor, it seems to be very tightly focused on
source-code editing, but subclassing it to allow for a colouriser which also
changes fonts looks possible (it uses a low-level device context to draw
graphic fonts).  It is not a good base for a full layout engine, however, as
it rather lacks in abstraction, doesn't provide for formatting blocks, and
is generally a straight-forward-no-looking-back text-placement engine.
Possibly adapting the Mozzilla layout engine (Gecko?) might be a better
option.

Enjoy yourselves,
Mike


Lyle Johnson <jlj at cfdrc.com> wrote in message
news:377CFD82.8EA084A2 at cfdrc.com...
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> I think any kind of rich text (i.e. RTF-compliant) or HTML widget is much
> farther off for FOX.
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