[lazarus] Editor

[Curtis White]

So would this special abstract class replace the TScrollBox class that
TSHTextEdit currently inherits from? Or would it be used some other way?

I looked at the SHEdit control, but I am having a bit of trouble following it
since, like you said, it uses some code from the new KCL that you haven't
released yet. I'm just trying to figure out how we could hook it into Lazarus
but am having a little trouble being able to tell how we could do it.

You would probably need to be the one to create this abstract class since you
know what all SHEdit needs from it in order to work. Would you be willing to
create that abstract class?


On 17-Oct-99 Sebastian Günther wrote:
> 
> We could create a special class which has to be implemented differently
> for each IDE, but all other classes can be the same. This class would
> have methods for:
> - changing the current color and font style
> - drawing text
> - clearing a rectangle
> - drawing the cursor
> - clipboard support
> - Keyboard handling
> 
> All the drawing stuff should not be pixel based, but character cell
> based, so it can be used even in text mode IDE's.
> 
> Regarding this abstraction class: Either we create an interface class
> (class which contains only abstract virtual methods), or we use include
> files for the different implementations.
> 
> I have attached the latest KCL SHEdit widget source (15 kB); this source
> won't compile without changes as it would require an unreleased version
> of KCL. It has clipboard support, but there is a tiny bug when you try
> to undo and redo a 'paste' operation.
> 
> 
> - Sebastian