From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T03:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.4

I've looked over you website, and I think I can answer my own questions...

AEditor is like Scintilla as FreeRIDE is like SCiTE - right?

I've always mis-understood AEditor as an IDE... but it's a widget.
Specifically a scriptable programmers source editing widget (kinda
long winded title :-)  ).

Now it makes sense why you didn't use Scintilla to write your editor -
you weren't writing an editor, you were writing an 'editing' widget -
a competitor to Scintilla.

Am I right?

-Rich


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:01:45 -0600, Richard Lyman <lymans@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well... as for your scrolling issue ( if you're talking about how with
> a little scroll up the scroll bar wouldn't stop ), in FXRuby 1.2 (
> hence FOX 1.2 ) it's fixed.
> 
> I know this because I've been writing my own editor in FXRuby and Ruby
> ( there seem to be so many around these days!! :-)  ).
> 
> As for the tabs that are on your to do list, it's not that hard to do.
> You're more than welcome to look at what I've done once I release mine
> (should be sometime in the next week or so).
> 
> I'm curious though - why didn't you go with FXScintilla? I ended up
> using it and it's saved me an enormous amount of trouble. There are
> things that I haven't been able to figure out, but for me the benefits
> outweigh the losses.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:20:00 +0900, Simon Strandgaard
> 
> 
> <neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 August 2004 13:09, "Pe�a, Botp" wrote:
> > > Simon Strandgaard [mailto:neoneye@adslhome.dk] wrote:
> > > > AEditor .. snip
> > >
> > > thanks for the aeditor and the rpa package. it took me just a few minutes
> > > to install and run (the rpa --force is handy).
> > >
> > > though the display is snappy now (as compared to old ver), I think it is
> > > not refreshed during scrolls. I notice this if I move the cursor down to
> > > the end of the file and then up to the beginning again.. as if the
> > > scrolling of the window is not functioning..
> > >
> > > hope I was clear =)
> >
> > yes very clear.. unfortunatly I cannot get scrolling to work on windows. I
> > attempted to get it working on my parents windows box earlier today, but was
> > unsuccessful. The code that does the scrolling works ok UNIX, but apparently
> > not on Windows.
> >
> > Thanks for your report.
> >
> > I have no idea why Fxruby doesn't like this code?  Any suggestions?
> >
> > def install_vertical_scroll_callback(view)
> >   if /mswin/ =~ PLATFORM
> >     # blit copy apparently doesn't work on windows?
> >     # TODO: figure out why drawArea doesn't do anything on windows.
> >     return
> >   end
> >   return unless OPTION_OPTIMIZE_VERTICAL_SCROLL
> >   view.set_vscroll_callback do |y1, y2, count|
> >     puts "vscroll y1=#{y1} y2=#{y2} count=#{count}"
> >     fh = @font.fontHeight
> >     sx = 0
> >     sy = y1 * fh
> >     sw = @back_buffer.width
> >     sh = count * fh
> >     dy = y2 * fh
> >     dx = 0
> >     FXDCWindow.new(@back_buffer) do |dc|
> >         dc.drawArea(@back_buffer, sx, sy, sw, sh, dx, dy)
> >     end
> >     # do scrolling of the arrays where we keep track of the output
> >     # NOTE: maybe its necessary to clone the lines
> >     @output_valid[y2, count] = @output_valid[y1, count] #.map{|i| i.clone}
> >     @lines[y2, count] = @lines[y1, count] #.map{|i| i.clone}
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > --
> > Simon Strandgaard
> >
> >
>