Marc Santhoff wrote:
Can somebody comment on the fitness of synedit components for this task,
please?
See comments below
I'd like to use a component from the LCL to make an editor widget behave
similar to a wiki, the goal is to
- have only some very basic formattings like bold headlines for guiding
the readers eye better
You can write your own highlighter (and/or markup modules), to do this.
However there are limitations, which will be hard to work round:
- supports only one font, at one size,
- will display all chars in a monospaced grid, (no proportional
display); however you can allocate multiply grid-cells for a single char
if needed
If you want do deal with "<b>"bold text</b>, then you need to write code
that stops the tags from being displayed. It is not yet foreseen, but it
can actually be done.
SynEdit accesses the text through a system of "Views" (like expanding
tabs). you can add in your own module, and filter certain text out.
- use links with vivible formatting (all links are blue/underlined, the
fire an event when clicked)
That is there already, see IDE ctrl-mouse links
- show some pictures with the text (best would be inlined)
Nothing there yet, not even basics.
There may be a chance to do emoticons or icons, that have the same
height as the font. (because the the line height is kept). But you have
to write the extra code from scratch.
Best Regards
Martin
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