On Apr 03, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: > Editing code is NOT a special need these days Norman. HTML is code. > XML is code. Plain text is code... we need code editors for our daily > lives these days... > > This isn't the 1980s anymore... > > RB's editfield handle huge amounts of text, and it's awkward to > style. And styling huge amounts of text is impossible. > > I'm not impressed to be honest, that RB create a solution, that most > of us need for non-competitive purposes (we aren't going to make > another RB with the code editor editfield)... and then don't give it > to us.
Theo Those are all text. And yes any text editor can do those things, including RB's editfield. The "special" items that are in the code editor in the RB IDE re the code folding, syntax highlighting and all any of the other items that are of use ONLY within the context of the RB IDE. In that way it has "special" requirements and so it's not just an editfield. Now there are some text editors that have a pluggable design (BBEdit , TextWrangler) and so they can apply certain styles to other languages. The RB IDE is not such a thing so it's specifically tailored to what RB needs. Write your own with MLTE or whatever you want. Or support Brandon and his efforts with the FTC. I really doubt the canvas that REAL has in the IDE would be of a lot of general purpose use but that's just my guess _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
