FXScintilla

News

• Updated to Scintilla 1.78
• Added support for Fox 1.7
• Dropped support for Fox 1.5.x and earlier.
• Removed custom m4 macros, use pkg-config instead.
• Implemented calltips.
• Reworked ReceivedSelection() for better middle-click pasting.
• Fixed a null-pointer crash in onDNDRequest()

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.71
• Added support for Fox-1.6
• Dropped support for Fox-1.0.
  

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.63
• Added support for Fox-1.4
  

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.62
• Fox support now defaults to Fox-1.2
  
• Scrollbar bug fixes.
  

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.61.
• Added support for Fox-1.2.
• Dropped support for Fox-1.1.
• Bug fixes.
  

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.55.
• Fixed accents support.

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.53.
• Support of the lastest release of the Fox development branch (1.1.33).
• Added a method to get the FXScintilla version string.
• Bug fixes.
  

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.51.
• Support of the lastest release of the Fox development branch (1.1.23).

• Should build properly under Cygwin.
• Packaging bugs corrected.

• Upgraded to Scintilla-1.49.
• The build process now uses autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7.

What is FXScintilla ?

Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+
developed by Neil Hodgson.
For more information about Scintilla, see http://www.scintilla.org.

The FOX GUI toolkit is a platform independent GUI library developped
by Jeroen van der Zijp.
For more information about FOX, see http://fox-toolkit.org.

FXScintilla is an implementation of Scintilla for the FOX GUI Library.

Screenshot

Where to get it ?

FXScintilla can be downloaded from the FXScintilla project pages on
Savannah:   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fxscintilla/

Mailing lists

fxscintilla-announce :

FXScintilla new release and events announcement

fxscintilla-users :

FXScintilla end users questions and discussions

To subscribe to any of these lists, please refer to the instructions on the
FXScintilla project page at:   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fxscintilla/.

Installation

Please refer to the file INSTALL.
FXScintilla should compile on every platform where both FOX and Scintilla
are available : Win32 and Unix systems.

Getting started

//--------------------------------------------------------
#include <fx.h>
#include <Scintilla.h>
#include <FXScintilla.h>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
  FXApp application("test");
  application.init(argc, argv);
  FXMainWindow * win = new FXMainWindow(&application, "Test");
  // Instantiating an FXScintilla widget
  FXScintilla * scint = new FXScintilla(win, NULL, 0, LAYOUT_FILL_X|LAYOUT_FILL_Y);
  // The Scintilla programming interface is through messages
  // like MS Windows (see scintilla/doc/ScintillaDoc.html)
  scint->sendMessage(SCI_STYLESETFONT, STYLE_DEFAULT, (long)"lucida");
  scint->sendMessage(SCI_STYLESETSIZE, STYLE_DEFAULT, (long)10);
  scint->sendMessage(SCI_STYLECLEARALL, 0, 0);
  
  application.create();
  win->show(PLACEMENT_SCREEN);
  application.run();
  return 0;
}
//--------------------------------------------------------

Bugs

Please file bugs and questions to the mailing list fxscintilla-users.

License

FXScintilla is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

FXScintilla is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with FXScintilla; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA