rich text editor

[willstdueswissen]

Hello,

simple question.
I didn't find any element that i can use (i'm looked in the ui.h).
But, ... is there any stuff like this avaible?
If not, can you add this stuff?

Thanks for the answere

[wasamasa]

The GTK and Cocoa documentation suggests using text view widgets and manipulation of the cursor/contents for providing simple text editors. These are exposed as multiline entry widgets in libui, albeit without the cursor manipulation bits...

[andlabs]

uiMultilineEntry is not rich text. Not sure how I'm going to approach this.

[wasamasa]

In other words, I doubt there are existing widgets that can be reused, unless libui pulls in Scintilla and makes it available on each platform. IUP did go for that approach.

[andlabs]

Scintilla is specifically a source code editor. That's ultimately the problem that I have to figure out: how do other programs that use rich text, like presentation programs, do it? (See also #74.)

[jwells89]

Under Cocoa, NSTextView handles rich text viewing + editing quite nicely. TextEdit on OS X is almost exclusively a build-out of NSTextView, with very little code being unique to TextEdit itself. NSTextView alongside NSAttributedString do most of the heavy lifting.

I don't know if other platforms have direct counterparts to these, though.

[Ivan171]

Windows have Rich Edit.

[gokr]

I am itching to use libui via Nim to build an IDE for Spry (sprylang.org) but... a code editor component is probably a prerequisite for that.

[andlabs]

I've started working on this; you can follow the utflib-and-attrstr branch if you want to see the prerequisite steps of redoing the text system.