On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:06:56AM -0800, Andy Kahn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:42:41PM +1100, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any replacement for GtkText?
> > > I need a text widget with working scrollbars and better syntax
> > > highlightign
> >
> > There are several GTK+ text editing widgets that you may wish to look at:
> >
> > GtkEditor http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/gtk.html
> > GtkExText http://www.bahnhof.se/~mikeh/linux_software.html
> > Scintilla http://www.scintilla.org
>
> Unfortunately, the first two are still based on the original GTK text
> widget, so they also inherit all the problems associated with it. The
> last one (Scintilla), is written in C++ and in it's current form, is
> more of an application as opposed to a reusable widget.
>From the description on the xfree86 Release Notes page
http://www.xfree86.org/snapshots/3.9.16/RELNOTES3.html#24
it sounds as though the Xaw text widget is quite mature and full
featured. This may also be worth investigation.
-- John Kodis.
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