Am 07.10.14 07:35, schrieb Nicholas Cannon:
Hey guys Im working on an open source text
editor(https://github.com/nicodasiko/Text-Config-2) and I would like
to add syntax highlighting(mainly for python code). I have built the
editor in python and the text input is a Text tkinter widget. I know
how to add tags and highlight things but Im not sure on how to
constantly update the highlighting.
How long do you expect the input to be? If it will be short pieces, just
run your regexps at every keystroke.
You can also cheat and use an existing tool for syntax highlighting. One
possibility is the ctext widget, which is based on the text widget and
is part of tcllib:
http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/ctext.html
All you need to do is to wrap it for the use in Tkinter.
Another alternative would be ScintillaTk
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scintillatk/
Scintilla is a full-blown editor component, which is used in many code
editors as the basic building block. Since this is a compiled extension,
I have no idea how hard it will be to interface it with Python, however.
Christian
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