"Neil Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Submitted By: Stefan Kueng (steveking)
> > I'd like to change the background color of lines dynamically to indicate
> > their 'age'. I'm using Scintilla to show a blame/annotation of a file in
> > version control, and it would really improve if I could show the user
> > which lines are old and which ones got changed very recently by
> > changing the background color of those lines. E.g., red indicating
> > 'hot' lines which were changed recently, and fading over to blue
> > the older the lines are.
> 
>    Does anyone else want this feature? For reasons I've explained on
> the tracker, I don't want to implement this as a callback but there
> are other implementations that could produce the same result.

If he didn't care about syntax highlighting, everything he wants could
be trivially handled with the standard styling mechanism (he would only
need 7 of the 8 bits!)

Personally, I don't think you should change scintilla at all regarding
Stefan's feature request.  If he can't squeeze his application into the
quite generous 32 indicators and 256 styles, he should really consider
drawing everything himself.  If his language and GUI toolkit makes such
things difficult, then we point out that other languages and toolkits
are easier than others, and that he shouldn't restrict himself to
languages and toolkits that make such things difficult ;)


 - Josiah

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