> > QScintilla is a class just like QTextEdit or QPlainTextEdit with many more > methods to manage text files supporting multiple lexers. Basically it > replaces > underlying document handlling and editing widgets of Qt. Nothing more... > > Exactly, lexer, document handling and editing widgets, all what a code editor need.
> > > Did you build wrappers to access QScintilla directly by .prg code? > > > > No. As said earlier, to write wrappers to this class I need it be part > of hbQT anyway. All alone it can only be used in a restricted manner. > > I don't think so, but it was just a curiosity. > > > I think QScintilla is useful basically to HbIDE or to an alternative to > > HbIDE, it's very specific to a code editor implementation. > > > > It is not an alternative to hbIDE. It can be an aid to it, and more so, > if some more exotic features we wish to include in hbIDE. For example, > code folding and line wrapping etc. > > I mean QScintilla would be useful to any code editor, HbIDE or other, oppositing to other applications which it would be almost useless. Code folding and line wrapping are exotic features? Topics like this shows differences between our views about a code editor. For me they are very basic features, some of them prevent me to use HbIDE today. []'s Maniero
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