custom control : scintilla editor

Gildas Menier · Post by **Gildas Menier** » 28 Oct 2007 18:17

Scintilla (http://www.scintilla.org/) is a text editor with many features such as tooltips, autocompletion, folding, syntax coloring etc...

This custom control wraps the scintilla dll to let you use it to replace the PDC's edit control. It has many more features and let you define your own keyword list, own color set, font, underline, folding etc..

The included project shows how to perform a folding/unfolding as well as syntax coloring for different list of keywords and indentation control. The scintilla control has many more features that can be used and changed at runtime.

Best regards

Gildas

http://www.arsaniit.com/vp_tools/index.htm (look for scintilla control)

drspro2 · Post by **drspro2** » 29 Oct 2007 11:50

wow really great

Post by **Thomas Linder Puls** » 29 Oct 2007 22:47

Yes, interesting. In fact, so intereting that I have spent a little time shined-up the code (to my likings, of course

).

Functionally, I have changed it to handle Unicode (or at least I think so, because I haven't really tested it). Unicode support is provided using UTF-8 (8 bit Unicode Transfer Format).

Post by **Thomas Linder Puls** » 8 Jan 2008 22:56

Copied to the wiki: 3rd:Scintilla Editor Control.

Tonton Luc · Post by **Tonton Luc** » 12 Mar 2008 13:07

Hi,
When I try to use this control, I've an error c100: The file 'pfc\CodepageId\CodepageId.ph' is not found.
Is it possible to use this control with VP 7.0 ?
If yes, how to solve this error ?

Jan de Lint · Post by **Jan de Lint** » 12 Apr 2008 19:22

I don't get this error but then I'm on 7103 CE.
The improvements from 7.0 to 7.1 are very slick.
I use scintilla for the line-wrap feature. As far as I know this is not availble with the standard controls.
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Post by **Thomas Linder Puls** » 15 Feb 2013 15:24

Since Visual Prolog 7.4 the Scintilla Editor is part of Visual Prolog. It is both used in the IDE, and also available for use in user projects (i.e. pfc/gui/controls/sciLexer). It is also used as a control in the message window.

The examples (IDE: Help -> Install Examples...) contains an example of its usage.

Post by **Thomas Linder Puls** » 11 Oct 2014 14:57

I am not sure which program you are talking about? Is it the example?

DjRocep · Post by **DjRocep** » 18 May 2019 1:35

Hi, first of all thanks for a great RAD tool,

maybe this is just me being stupid but I cant place any custom control. I think added the class correctly using the Custom Controls menu but I cant find the control in the menu.
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custom control scintilla editor