Features

Does the current ActiveX SyntaxEdit provide features like Text block grouping, IntelliSense and parameter tooltips ?

What do you mean? In the sample I can see code folding (text grouping) and IntelliSense (pressing CTRL + Space)
Try to open a .c file (whatever) and see it yourself...

If I'm wrong please point it out, but after spending ~ an hour with SyntaxEdit, a few things jump out:

1) I don't see any way to programmatically get at the text content outside of saving to and reading from a file. I can't remember the last time I saw a text-based control that did not have a .Text property. It's almost a given. In addition to the entire contents, I'd like to have quick access to a string representing the current row.

2) There are zero events associated with this control. I'd like to at least know when the contents have changed, but there are many other useful events that come to mind - again - most of which can be found with any given text-based component.

Overall - this is a wonderful control for Codejock to produce. Similar unsupported controls can be found, as can full-feature, expensive ones... costing more than the entire Codejock package. But I think Codejock is onto something here. It will be interesting to see it be developed further.

Also - if you are simply developing a text editor, the current properties and lack of events may not affect you at all. We intend to include a Lua command box in the next version of our software - allowing casual users to script ad-hoc functionality without requiring a rebuild / reinstall. It would be nice for that content to be syntax-highlighted, but that will require programmatic access to the text (possibly one line at a time). It may also be nice to hide the bookmark/breakpoint & line number sections (I'm actually quite surprised that line numbers cannot be hidden in this verison...)

It should be a good ride with this one

Regards ~ jp

apuhjee wrote: 1) I don't see any way to programmatically get at the text content outside of saving to and reading from a file. I can't remember the last time I saw a text-based control that did not have a .Text property. It's almost a given. In addition to the entire contents, I'd like to have quick access to a string representing the current row. 2) There are zero events associated with this control. I'd like to at least know when the contents have changed, but there are many other useful events that come to mind - again - most of which can be found with any given text-based component. Overall - this is a wonderful control for Codejock to produce. Similar unsupported controls can be found, as can full-feature, expensive ones... costing more than the entire Codejock package. But I think Codejock is onto something here. It will be interesting to see it be developed further. Also - if you are simply developing a text editor, the current properties and lack of events may not affect you at all. We intend to include a Lua command box in the next version of our software - allowing casual users to script ad-hoc functionality without requiring a rebuild / reinstall. It would be nice for that content to be syntax-highlighted, but that will require programmatic access to the text (possibly one line at a time). It may also be nice to hide the bookmark/breakpoint & line number sections (I'm actually quite surprised that line numbers cannot be hidden in this verison...)

I agree... More events are needed to make this useful.  At least the standard RichTextBox events.

I'd also like to see a TEXT property as well as the ability to hide the bookmark/breakpoint & line numbers.

This does have the potential to be a really great control.

Hello,

I do not add this as a standard feature, but I add few members to easy inmlement this on your side. The CurPosChanged event and SetRowBkColor method will be adeed to 11.2.1.

EXAMPLE:

Private Sub wndSyntaxEdit_CurPosChanged(ByVal nNewRow As Long, ByVal nNewCol As Long)       wndSyntaxEdit.SetRowBkColor -1, -1 ‘ clear colors for all rows     wndSyntaxEdit.SetRowBkColor nNewRow, RGB(225, 225, 255)             ' wndSyntaxEdit.SetRowColor -1, -1     ' wndSyntaxEdit.SetRowColor nNewRow, RGB(155, 25, 55)     End Sub

 

And the screenshort is: