Writable Text Area

[Kantros]

To get used to the UAK workflow I decided to make a simple notepad like application. It was going to be notepad just with a side panel file system to group notes in a logical manner based on related note content. 

I went to implement this and realized there is no way to have a writable TextArea. I have to create a hidden TextField, set it to TEXTCHANGEACTIONEVENT, then do all this hacky round about ways to make the text area be populated in a way that makes sense.

Is something like a writable TextArea being considered for a widget?

[Josh]

An editable multi-line text editor is pretty difficult, and the list of feature requests would be quite large. There's syntax highlighting, code folding, intellisense / linting, the list goes on and on. For my own application, I decided to rely on Visual Studio Code instead of using a built-in script editor.

The best solution is probably to integrate an existing library into the interface, maybe Scintilla or another library. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Kantros]

oh yes certainly something like that shouldn't be provided by a framework for the purpose UAK serves. I'm talking about a simple TextBox like the one in WPF or the TextEdit widget from QT a simple non rich textbox.

I'm sure you have lots of stuff you're working on but I wanted to suggest it. If I come up with an elegant solution I'll be sure to post about it!

[Josh]

I think it is possible. The text field already contains most of the required functionality, and on Linux the word wrapping is performed manually, so I could use that same code to break up the text into an array of separate lines. Lots of work to get it right, but it is possible in the future.

[Josh]