Thread: Making an IDE with richedit

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    Cool Making an IDE with richedit

    The main idea of the language IDE is to mark saved words and things like it. My question is, how do i handle this when i'm using richedit controls, how can I move inside the control to change the style of the text as it's been written by the user.

    For example, the user writes "while" but not until the "e" is typed in will the word "while" become bold.

    Is there any good way, or a specific technic to handle this kind of thing?

    I would also appreciate any good online resource on richedit controls, if possible

    Thank you.
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    >> any good online resource on richedit controls,
    Rich Edit Controls

    If this is just for learning, there's your reference. If you really want to make you own syntax-aware editor, check out Scintilla.

    For additional RichEdit code (mostly MFC, some pure API): http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/controls/richedit/

    gg

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    mostly MFC
    So it's mainly used with mfc, because of the complexity? Or people just bacame really lazy?
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