On 08/12/2018 06:16 PM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > On Tue, August 7, 2018 6:25 am, Israel wrote: >> yeah I looked at his editor, and it is the tutorial from FLTK just >> modified slightly. But as it is it wouldn't compile. I guess I could do >> the same, and make a text editor using the code form the Tutorial as well. > Don't know if that's what I tried, but whatever I ran did build from > source. Looked like a basic editor. There were a few at that site. > > I keep wanting to use the scintilla widget from SciTE to create a text > editor. There's an editor for Fox Toolkit that uses it. There's even an > ncurses editor that uses it. Someone tried to connect Scintilla with FLTK > but it wasn't a portable implementation (think it was Windows only). I actually decided to just make a text editor, the way I wanted it to work. So far I have a working editor that has a tabbed interface (important for small screens, I think) but have not fully implemented the Syntax highlighting. I had to reimplement the Fl_Text_Editor widget to be able to allow syntax highlighting... I hope to finish it soon. It is already much nicer than Xedit (the X11 text editor), so this is a feature I can return to later once the rest of the programs have been reworked. >> I have thought about making a default theme for FLTK, but my main >> concern is to make things really consistent. > Think that would be great. The FLTK developers seem interested in adding > new themes and finding ways to make it easier to get the new themes added > to the code. I have not looked into how to theme FLTK yet, but I suppose I should :D >> JWM is not completely capable of doing this. > Just recently saw an old post on the Puppy forum about someone adding some > features to JWM and looking into adding support for SVG icons using > nanosvg. Don't know how far they got on the project though. technosaurus (a Puppy Linux guy) is probably who brought that up. He made a version of JWM that uses nanosvg for svg support, though JWM does have SVG support already... I do like how small nanosvg is. >> There is only a GuI for the xpdf I am familiar with. Is xpdf the name >> of a library as well? because there is an xpdf (X11-pdf) that uses the >> Xlibs to draw the window, etc.. > Looked up xpdf on the Debian site and it seemed to indicate this was the > xpdf client front end and it was now using the poppler library (fork of > xpdf) instead of xpdf itself as the backend. Ahh... that makes sense > I would recommend looking into using mupdf. I found this, and think you might be interested in it. https://github.com/beranat/flviewer It allows mupdf/poppler support, and does the basics for an image viewer.
> It includes lightweight X11 > and OpenGL/GLFW front ends. There are other viewers like zathura that > offer alternative backends (poppler or mupdf libraries). Mupdf does not > have as many features as poppler or xpdf. So, if you need more than a > basic PDF viewer, stick with poppler. However, mupdf renders faster and > is more responsive (especially on older systems). So, if a basic PDF > viewer (and ebook reader and cbz viewer and picture viewer) is enough, > mupdf is a good alternative. xpdf and poppler are written in C++ while > mupdf is written in C and designed for efficiency. There are some web > sites with rendering statistics that compare performance between poppler > and mupdf. They all show mupdf as performing better. > > Best wishes. > Laura I appreciate all your input on this subject, I know small, efficient programs are a passion of yours. I recently cam across a way to use fl_read_image(...) to create a screenshot. I found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46596654/fltk-desktop-screenshot-issue When looking to see if there was a way to use FLTK to grab the entire screen (for this purpose), and have built a small screenshot tool (26.3 KiB). The only output is PNG, which seemed reasonable, since FLTK also uses libpng. The program is simple, and eventually I would like to add single window screenshots, or perhaps, resizeable, but I would like to finish with all the little programs before extending them more fully. -- Regards -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
