FXScintilla

News

• Updated to Scintilla 2.22
• Changes to source directory layout per upstream changes from Scintilla.
• Source development repository moved from Savannah CVS to GitHub.

• Updated to Scintilla 2.11

• FXiTe is an advanced cross-platform text editor built using FXScintilla.
    — check it out at: http://code.google.com/p/fxite/

• Updated to Scintilla 2.02
• Improved handling of UTF-8 text.
• Fixed a bug when middle-click pasting to an empty top line.

• Updated to Scintilla 2.01
• Reworked selection code to work with new Scintilla multiple selections.
• Fixed a bug where DND was not properly releasing mouse grab after drop.
• Fixed a null-pointer crash in onSelectionRequest()

• 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()
• FXScintilla has a new project admin (Jeff Pohlmeyer).
    - Many thanks to Gilles Filippini for all his years of hard work!

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

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FXScintilla new release and events announcement

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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;
  }

Support options

Questions or comments regarding this project should be directed to the fxscintilla-users mailing list.

Bug reports may be submitted at:   http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=fxscintilla

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