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Topic: Features

Posted By: tobi
Subject: Features
Date Posted: 17 April 2007 at 3:49pm

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

The sample does not show any of this features

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Posted By: apuhjee
Date Posted: 17 April 2007 at 6:10pm

Stop crying. At least you got a sample!

Posted By: MNovaro
Date Posted: 18 April 2007 at 8:00am

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...

Posted By: tobi
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 3:07pm

You�re right ! Code folding and IntelliSense works !

But parameter tooltips are not implemented, or ?

Posted By: apuhjee
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 6:25pm

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

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Posted By: apuhjee
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 6:28pm

Oh yeah - users are not able to edit their posts in this newly-created forum

Posted By: idolpx
Date Posted: 05 July 2007 at 4:25pm

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.

Posted By: ijwelch
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 2:00am

I agree, this is a looking good. Here's my list of basic properties/methods/events I think need to be added:

Properties
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Text
SelStart
SelLength
SelText
Locked (or ReadOnly)
AutoIndent
HideSel
LineNumbersVisible
MarginVisible (here I mean the margin for break points/bookmarks)
Language (this seems to be automatically set by file extension at the moment, but if we can get away from having to load a file then great)
TopRow
CurrRow and CurrCol need to be read/write

Methods
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CopyRTF
ExportRTF
ExportHTML
Print (show print setup dialog)
FindDialog
FindReplaceDialog

Events
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Mouse events
Keyboard events

Incidentally, the vertical scrollbar only becomes visible after I manually resize the window in the demo app (this after opening a 2mb sql file). And I did notice one time that not all keywords were colored, although I haven't been able to reproduce that problem.

I was most impressed by the load time and scrolling speed. This is the only reliable COM component of it's kind I can find. The one I'm currently using (codemax) is no longer supported and has a problem with large files, so I'm looking forward to the next update:)

Posted By: AndreiM
Date Posted: 28 September 2007 at 3:18am

Hello,

The most properties listed above will be added in nearest 11.2.1 version.

But some no easy features, like Export/Copy RTF/HTML, will be added later.

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Regards,
Andrei Melnik

Posted By: tobi
Date Posted: 05 October 2007 at 3:46am

Will it be possible to highlight the currently selected line to easy editing for the user in large scripts ?

Posted By: AndreiM
Date Posted: 11 October 2007 at 3:59am

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:

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Regards,
Andrei Melnik

Posted By: tobi
Date Posted: 11 October 2007 at 4:10am

Great ! When will this feature be available ?