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1 | This contrib is the wxStyledTextCtrl, which is a wrapper around the |
2 | Scintilla edit control. (See www.scintilla.org) | |
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4 | There is still VERY MUCH to be done, most notable of which is a more | |
5 | advanced sample that exercises more of the code. (I havn't tested | |
6 | AutoComplete or CallTips, or most of the event types at all yet.) And | |
7 | also documentation, adding wrappers for some new scintilla | |
8 | functionality, building and testing on wxGTK, etc. Be patient, it all | |
9 | will get there soon. | |
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13 | Let me describe a bit about the architecture I am implementing... | |
14 | Obviously there is the Platform layer which implements the varioius | |
15 | platform classes by using wxWindows classes and filling in where | |
16 | needed. Then there is a ScintillaWX class that is derived from | |
17 | ScintillaBase and implements the necessary virtual methods that | |
18 | Scintilla needs to fully funciton. This class however is not meant to | |
19 | ever be used directly by wx programmers. I call it one end of the | |
20 | bridge between the wx and Scintilla worlds. The other end of the | |
21 | bridge is a class called wxStyledTextCtrl that looks, feels and acts | |
22 | like other classes in wxWindows. Here is a diagram: | |
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25 | +------------------+ +-------------------+ | |
26 | | wxStyledTextCtrl |--bridge--| ScintillaWX | | |
27 | +------------------+ +-------------------+ | |
28 | | ScintillaBase | | |
29 | +-------------------+ | |
30 | | Editor | | |
31 | +-------------------+ | |
32 | | PlatWX | | |
33 | +-------------------+ | |
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36 | wxStyledTextCtrl derives from wxControl so it has a window that can be | |
37 | drawn upon. When a wxStyledTextCtrl is constructed it constructs a | |
38 | ScintillaWX for itself and passes itself to the scintilla object to be | |
39 | set as the wMain and wDraw attributes. All method calls on the STC | |
40 | are sent over the bridge in the form of calls to ScintiallWX::WndProc. | |
41 | All notifications are sent back over the bridge and turned into | |
42 | wxEvents. | |
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45 | Robin | |
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