[lazarus] Editor

[Michael A. Hess]

Shane Miller wrote:
> 
> Question:
> Would it be a good idea to take the mwedit source, and try to get it
> to compile and run in our source?  This would accomplish 2 things.
> 1: We would have specific things we knew we needed to get working.
> 2: When we got it working, we'd have an editor!
> 
> I think this may be a good way to do this.  Compile some code and see
> where the errors are and fix them. Once all the errors are fixed (and
> we are close to Delphi compatable) then we would have an editor that
> we could all use!
> Any thoughts?  It's an awfully nice editor...

I think it might be a good idea for 2 reasons.

1. It might help us get to the working editor part of the LCL quicker.
   It is already a proven component for doing editing. The web pages
   does profess that it doesn't use any Windows API calls so we should
   be able to match functionality. The web page indicates it is free for
   non-commercial use.

2. Alot of Win32 Delphi coders are already familiar with the component
   and use it in their Win32 products. By porting it to the LCL it means
   that various Win32 applications that already use it in Delphi would
   be portable to the LCL.

I like the idea of trying to compile it with the LCL and see what
breaks. Then we work on fixing those items. It already has all of the
syntax highlighting for various languages built in. The logic has
already been fleshed out we just need to code the LCL to match the
feature set it requires.

Talk to him about what we would like to do and see if the author
wouldn't be interested in helping. He know his code the best.

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Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
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