[Bf-committers] Text Editor - Scintilla Integration

[Dalai Felinto]

Two things:
- glsl and osl are C based. So taking C highlights and adding a few extra
keywords should do.

- Ton, I remember more than once  Campbell suggesting exactly that (to wrap
scintilla instead of reinventing the wheel). It's definitively not to
address only the syntax highlight problem. They are quite a few advantages
that come with it.
(Fyi gamekit IDE also uses scintilla)

--
Dalai
On Dec 19, 2012 2:10 PM, "Justin Dailey" <dail8859 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Adding scintilla just for syntax highlighting is overkill, I agree. But
> that is not why I originally started looking into it. Currently maintaining
> the text editor functionality can be a pain, especially when it comes to
> undoing/redoing operations. If blender did use scintilla, then developers
> only have to worry about the thin layer between Blender and Scintilla, and
> not the internals. It would also leverage the usefulness of scintilla
> inside of Blender by having more features if desired. It also has support
> for advanced features such as autocompletion and calltips.
> It is still an early WIP but I think it has alot of potential (plus its
> been a fun side project for me :-)). Ultimately a decision can be made as
> to actually use it or not.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
> > To: Justin Dailey <dail8859 at yahoo.com>; bf-blender developers <
> bf-committers at blender.org>
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Text Editor - Scintilla Integration
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would suggest to check on basic syntax hightlighting to please OSL
> editing.
> > Adding Scintalla sounds like overkill.
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation  ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> > Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
> >
> > On 19 Dec, 2012, at 16:13, Justin Dailey wrote:
> >
> >>  Hello everyone,
> >>  Since it was recently brought up about further extending the text
> editor
> > syntax highlighting for more languages, I figured I would mention that I
> have
> > currently been working on implementing Scintilla [1] as the main editing
> engine
> > for the text editor. (For those of you unfamiliar with Scintilla, it is
> the
> > editing engine for such editors as SciTE, Notepad++, Code::Blocks, etc).
> > I've already written most of the wrapper code for scintilla and mapped
> about
> > 90% of the text editor operators. It doesn't do any loading/saving,
> handing
> > multiple files, etc yet but that will come in the future.
> >>
> >>
> >>  It also does syntax highlighting. Scintilla comes with about 90 lexers
> > (lexers are what do the parsing and coloring), granted we only need to
> keep a
> > few of them. Any language which it doesn't support currently (OSL, GLSL)
> can
> > have a lexer written for it if needed.  Full integration of scintilla is
> still a
> > ways off but I figured I would give a glimpse of good things to come :-)
> >>
> >>  And just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that implementing syntax
> > highlighting for OSL or other languages is not needed right now, I'm just
> > trying to make sure we don't run off and try to restructure the text
> editor
> > too much to implement major features if scintilla will work. :-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  [1] http://www.scintilla.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Thanks,
> >>
> >>  Justin (dail)
> >>
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