Christopher Subich wrote: > My first requirement is raw speed; none of what I'm doing is > processing-intensive, so Python itself shouldn't be a problem here.
There's raw speed and then there's raw speed. Do you want to display, say, a megacharacter/second? > it's highly desirable to have very fast text updates (text > inserted only at the end)-- any slower than 20ms/line stretches > usability for fast-scrolling. Ahh, that's 400 bytes per second. That's pretty slow. > The second requirement is that it support text coloration. > The third requirement is cross-platform-osity qtextedit has all of those. See http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qtextedit.html Looks like LogText mode is exactly what you want http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qtextedit.html#logtextmode ] Setting the text format to LogText puts the widget in a special mode ] which is optimized for very large texts. Editing, word wrap, and rich ] text support are disabled in this mode (the widget is explicitly made ] read-only). This allows the text to be stored in a different, more ] memory efficient manner. and ] By using tags it is possible to change the color, bold, italic and ] underline settings for a piece of text. Depending on what you want, curses talking to a terminal might be a great fit. That's how we did MUDs back in the old days. :) Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
