1This contrib is the wxStyledTextCtrl, which is a wrapper around the 2Scintilla edit control. (See www.scintilla.org) 3 4There is still VERY MUCH to be done, most notable of which is a more 5advanced sample that exercises more of the code. (I havn't tested 6AutoComplete or CallTips, or most of the event types at all yet.) And 7also documentation, adding wrappers for some new scintilla 8functionality, building and testing on wxGTK, etc. Be patient, it all 9will get there soon. 10 11 12 13Let me describe a bit about the architecture I am implementing... 14Obviously there is the Platform layer which implements the varioius 15platform classes by using wxWindows classes and filling in where 16needed. Then there is a ScintillaWX class that is derived from 17ScintillaBase and implements the necessary virtual methods that 18Scintilla needs to fully funciton. This class however is not meant to 19ever be used directly by wx programmers. I call it one end of the 20bridge between the wx and Scintilla worlds. The other end of the 21bridge is a class called wxStyledTextCtrl that looks, feels and acts 22like other classes in wxWindows. Here is a diagram: 23 24 25 +------------------+ +-------------------+ 26 | wxStyledTextCtrl |--bridge--| ScintillaWX | 27 +------------------+ +-------------------+ 28 | ScintillaBase | 29 +-------------------+ 30 | Editor | 31 +-------------------+ 32 | PlatWX | 33 +-------------------+ 34 35 36wxStyledTextCtrl derives from wxControl so it has a window that can be 37drawn upon. When a wxStyledTextCtrl is constructed it constructs a 38ScintillaWX for itself and passes itself to the scintilla object to be 39set as the wMain and wDraw attributes. All method calls on the STC 40are sent over the bridge in the form of calls to ScintiallWX::WndProc. 41All notifications are sent back over the bridge and turned into 42wxEvents. 43 44 45Robin 46 47[SOLARIS NOTE - ellers@iinet.net.au - June 2002] 48 49On sunos5 (sparc) the stc code breaks if optimisation is turned on (the 50default). If your release build breaks but the debug build is fine, 51try reconfiguring with --disable-optimise and rebuilding. If you are using 52wxPython you will also need to disable optimised compiling. To do this I 53had to hand modify the python makefile in (prefix)/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile 54to remove optimisation flags. 55 56