wxStyledTextCtrl - Dead?

David Rasmussen david.rasmussen at gmx.net
Tue Apr 11 02:48:55 EDT 2006


Dave Mandelin wrote:
> I don't know the answers to 1 and 2, but from the demo I know that the
> answer to 3 is wx.stc.StyledTextControl.
> 
> As for 4, I guess it depends on what you want to do. StyledTextControl
> looked pretty scary to me, and for my application I mainly needed to
> display styled text, not edit it, so I embedded a web browser window
> and used HTML+CSS (and even a little JavaScript now). That worked quite
> nicely.
> 
> If you need to edit the text as well, then I don't know. The rich edit
> control (TextCtrl with style wx.TE_RICH2) is one option, but it is not
> particularly nice to use.
> 

I am trying to make a programmer's editor (and later a full IDE), and I 
want things like syntax highlighting etc. I could of course roll my own 
fancy editing control, but if STC could solve my problem and is flexible 
enough, then I'll use that for now :)

/David



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