I can't get the syntax highlighting to work with the compiled example for
windows.  It runs fine and it loads files but there is no coloring nor can I
make a selection.  Also all the crlf appear as a square at the end of each
line.

Darren 

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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:00 PM
To: Discussion of the Scintilla editing component
Subject: [scintilla] SinkWorld 6

   A new release of SinkWorld is available from SourceForge. The files can
be accessed through http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Tentacle.html

   The biggest advance in this version is a more complex restyling
technique. In Scintilla, when the text is styled to line 1000 and a change
is made on line 10, then the styled area is reduced to before line 10
abandoning much work. An attempt is made to avoid redrawing after the
modification but sometimes this does not work. An additional problem is that
Scintilla does not look at changes in the extra information stored in
LineState when working out the extent of a change.

   In SinkWorld, a modification first creates a hole in the styled area. The
hole is then restyled with all the active lexers and if the end of the hole
changes style in any of its style buffers or extra
(history) information then the styled area is reduced and more restyling
will be done later.

   SinkWorld has functions for drawing translucent polygons and there is a
new RoundedBox decoration that uses this feature. You can set the alpha
(transparency) value to between 0 (transparent) and 255 (opaque) and the
transparency of the outline of the box can be set with the alphaoutline
value. To avoid needing too many lines in mode files structured values can
be specified surrounded with '{' and '}' so a rounded box decoration may
look like
KeyWord:bold=0,decoration={type=RoundedBox,fore=#0000FF,alpha=10,alphaoutlin
e=20}

   Translucent drawing is slower than opaque drawing. On GTK+ the code moves
bits around more than appears strictly necessary so GTK+ experts may be able
to improve the code. Translucency was much easier to achieve for Java and C#
as their graphics libraries support alpha.

   There is another visual improvement with the box facet intended to be a
different way of indicating the selection or other multi-line features.
There are still a couple of problems with this: it doesn't handle horizontal
scrolling and only one box can be drawn in a window.

   Both translucency and the box feature are visible in
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Boxes.png
   Translucency on GTK+
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/alphaspell.png

   Neil

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