Tomás Touceda wrote on 2010-06-06 15:11:
> Hi,
> 
> what's the best approach to handle text decorations of the type: syntax
> highlighting, selected text?

I would make a custom widget, either a subclass of Text (if you want the
interface to be very similar to a Text widget) or a subclass of
WidgetWrap that uses a Text widget as self._w (if you want more control
over the interface).

If you're making a subclass of Text you can simply override the
get_text() method and return the attributes you want along with the text
(see http://excess.org/urwid/reference.html#Text-get_text )

With a WidgetWrap subclass you can set the Text's attributes when
setting the text, eg.:

    # use attributes based on syntax
    self._w.set_text([('keyword', "class"), " Foo", ('punct', ":")])

HTH,
Ian

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