Announcement: wxScintilla is officially abandoned :(

[MortenMacFly]

Morten, I'm happy to help test it if you want to throw me a patch against the latest svn.

Ok... unfortunately I wasn't able to do it. SVN diff does not consider files that have been added and the diff tool just makes non-workable patches. :?
So... I have added a ZIP file that contains the wxscintilla sources of the SDK folder (the include folder is not affected). So remove the original sdk/wxscintilla folder and copy the one from the ZIP archive into it. BTW: The makefile build system is not yet updated.

[DrewBoo]

Edit: Ps.: I cannot attach a "patch" (ZIP archive) of such big size, so look here: http://www.martin-halle.de/archive/wxscintilla.zip

Awesome.  I'll have time to look at it in a few hours.

Am I looking for anything in particular?  Broken old features?  Potential new features?  Just hit it with a hammer and see if it still ticks?

[MortenMacFly]

Am I looking for anything in particular?  Broken old features?  Potential new features?  Just hit it with a hammer and see if it still ticks?

Well... especially trying under Linux and (most important) fixing the build system for linux so that it works at all would be of much help. I don't like Linux anymore. It has tricked me too often recently. So I am Windows only atm.

BTW: I have forgotten to add the CodeBlocks project file that needs an update, too. So you have to do it manually... just add all sources of sdk\wxscintilla\src\scintilla\include and sdk\wxscintilla\src\scintilla\src. Don't add anything else... we don't need these parts.

[dmoore]

Ok... unfortunately I wasn't able to do it. SVN diff does not consider files that have been added and the diff tool just makes non-workable patches. :?

svn diff should work if you svn add the new files first.

[DrewBoo]

Well... especially trying under Linux and (most important) fixing the build system for linux so that it works at all would be of much help. I don't like Linux anymore. It has tricked me too often recently. So I am Windows only atm.

Hey, Morten.  I haven't forgotten about this.  It's building fine, but I want to kick the tires some more when I have a free hour or two. 

[Jeisson]

Hi CB team.

I need to program an editor into my wx application. wxScintilla seems the best option, but I have some problems with it. Reading this thread one understands the sad estate of that project.

Now I find two choices. [1] Use Scintilla library directly, or [2] Make some fixes to the wxScintilla v1.72 (SVN). But I have noticed you have kept an updated version for your own needs (Wonderful!).

I would like to ask a humble question. Could I use your updated version of wxScintilla? Is it under wxWindows license?

Thanks so much in advance.
Best regards
-Jeisson

[MortenMacFly]

I would like to ask a humble question. Could I use your updated version of wxScintilla? Is it under wxWindows license?

It's under GPL3, just as the rest of C::B, too. If that license suits your needs, go ahead.

Alternatively there is another IDE that uses an own further improved version of wxScintilla called CodeLite. To be honest I am not sure under what license this goes, but it's surely OpenSource at least. You can ask the author of that IDE (Eran Ifrah) via a PM. He is member of our forum under the nick name "eranif".

As another alternative: Are you aware, that a kind of "wxScintilla" called STC is part of the wxWidgets sources? It's here:
[wxWidgets_sources]\contrib\src\stc
...for wxWidgets 2.8.10; or here:
[wxWidgets_sources]\src\stc
...for wxWidgets 2.9.x.

[Jeisson]

As another alternative: Are you aware, that a kind of "wxScintilla" called STC is part of the wxWidgets sources? It's here:
[wxWidgets_sources]\contrib\src\stc
...for wxWidgets 2.8.10; or here:
[wxWidgets_sources]\src\stc
...for wxWidgets 2.9.x.

Morten. Your words are light.

I did not know wxStyledTextCtrl is actually a Scintilla control, it is not in the wx-2.8.10 docs (docs-2.9 includes it). This is fantastic. I am going to try STC.

BTW.: wx-2.9-svn seems to be updated to Scintilla 2.01.

Thanks so much, again
Best regards
-Jeisson

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By the way, are you plan to merge your own Scintilla binding with wxWidgets3`s stc control after migrating to new wxWidgets version? I think this would useful for both - wxWidgets core and CodeBlocks project.

[MortenMacFly]

By the way, are you plan to merge your own Scintilla binding with wxWidgets3`s stc control

I doubt this will happen any time soon. The STC component is still based on scintilla 1.7.x to my knowledge and lacks a lot of features we've added already. As we depend partially on these new features we would either need to adopt STC or stay with (our) wxScintilla. the latter makes more sense to me.

[cgarcia109]

CodeBlocks should be wxScintilla mantainers(sp?) they actually do it
See something if you search wxscintilla in google the third result is codeblocks forums.
Who could be interested in getting wxscintilla?
- developers (mostly cpp developers)
- developers using wxWidgets
- developers interested on creating some editor prolly with code highlighting capabilities

If you show them codeblocks and how to build an ide simply extending codeblocks, some of them would be happy dont you think.

You set a web page with a download link and a documentation page and you place some banners. That would be fine