I am a masochist and still use Morphic I love Morphic Yes I know I have talked to my psychiatrist about it, he adjusted my drugs On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 at 20:52, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:
> Thanks Peter, > > I will start with the font increase, decrease part then. Is important. > My eyes are not so young now. Will try building some small widget with a > Tex class using text area and two buttons. It shouldn't be so hard. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > > On 06/10/16 12:45, Peter Uhnak wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:41:10AM -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I would like to create some GUI that would be essentially a text > >> area field plus some buttons. The idea is to support > >> > >> - Font size increasing/decreasing. > >> > >> - Syntaxt highlighting for markup languages. > > The hardest part is the syntax highlighting itself, because you need > (ideally non-strict) parser and highlighter for each language. There are > several languages that use PetitParser for both. > > Then you basically build up the text with `Text`, (`Text` class supports > things like specifying color, emphasis, etc.). > > > > And then you can just show the text in a RubTextArea. > > > > You can even use Spec' TextModel; I used TextModel and PetitParser based > highlightning for coloring my DSL, but I never got around to finishing it. > > > > I believe Johan's Live State Machine editor does something similar. > > > > Also look at Pillar support (I saw mails floating around that it was > updated or something). > > > > Peter > > > > > >> I gave a glimpse to the RubTextAreaExamples yesterday, but if anyone > >> knows a more complete example to start with, that would be really > >> helpful. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Offray > >> > >> > > > > >
