[antlr-interest] Reusing the text editor in ANTLRworks

Aaron Niedbala aaron at sqlpower.ca
Mon Oct 6 14:06:02 PDT 2008


2008/10/6 Marco Hunsicker <devel at hunsicker.de>
>
> You therefore might be better off with a ready-to-use editor component.
> I'm only aware of two specific components. Both have support for SQL.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/jsyntaxpane/ APL 2.0
> http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/  LGPL


2008/10/6 Sam Harwell <sharwell at pixelminegames.com>
>
> Depending on your target platform, you can also target the Visual Studio
> Shell (free). Might take you a bit to get a skeleton language service

Thanks Sam and Marco,

Our app targets all platforms that have Swing support, so the Visual
Studio Shell is not an option (but thanks for mentioning it).

We've decided to run with rsyntaxtextarea. It works with Java 5, which
we're still stuck on thanks to Apple blocking the Java 6 update on all
but their newest hardware. About 30% of users on our other products
are Mac users, so we feel it's worth catering to Mac still.

Thanks also to Terrence. We still intend to look at extracting the
editor from ANTLRworks because it's much more powerful than
rsyntaxtextarea, which is only a tokenizer. But to get the whole
project off the ground quickly, rsyntaxtextarea looks like an
excellent compromise.

Aaron


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