CoolEdit - Powerfull syntax coloring text editor


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Features:

  1. Not limited size of file.
  2. Support for DOS/UNIX/MAC style of files
  3. Syntax coloring, support for 21 language, easy adding new languages.
  4. Support OLE Drag-and-Drop.
  5. Support Stream/Column/Line selection mode
  6. Has Unlimited UNDO (By default its limited by 100 operations, you can increase this value)
  7. Has several built-in search engines: Standard(Brute-Force), Boyer-Moore, Regular expression. You can easy add more.
  8. Option: View whitespace.
  9. Option: View line numbers.
  10. . Option: Hide curet.
  11. . Option: Hide margin.
  12. . Option: View Inactive Selection
  13. . Option: Look word under cursor for Find.Replace operations.
  14. . Option: AutoIntend.
  15. . Easy customizable.

Todo:

  1. Redo handling
  2. Fix Column selection bugs
  3. Fix No SmartCursor bug
  4. Add Code completion,Code parameters, Tooltip Symbol,
  5. Add Brace Matching (language depended).
  6. Add Smart AutoIntend (language depended).

 

Cool Edit implements following classes: (only importand ones)

1 TEditPos Represented text position.
2 TEditRange Represented text range (Selection for example)
3 TCoolTextBuffer Data provider, Holds all text lines
4 TCoolScroller Scroller for CoolEdit
5 TCoolTextWnd Base class, capable show text, only.
6 TSyntaxParser Base class for syntax support
7 TCoolSearchEngine Base class for Search support - Actual Search Engine
8 TCoolEngineDescr Base class for Search support -  Search Engine Descriptor
9 TCoolFindDlg CoolEdit find dialog
10 TCoolReplaceDlg CoolEdit replace dialog
11 TCoolSearchWnd Class with search capabilities
12 TCoolEdit Class with edit capabilities
13 TCoolEditFile Class capable save/load files
14 TCoolSearchView View with search capabilities
15 TCoolEditView View with edit capabilities
16 TMemComboBox Memory combobos
17 TDynamicTextGadget Text gadget, for show line/column number
18 TDynamicBitmapGadget Bitmap gadget, to show Dirty status
19 TCoolDocument Document class
20 TDragDropProxy Drag-and-Drop support
21 TDragDropSupport Drag-and-Drop support

 

TCoolTextBuffer:

Public functions:

TCoolTextBuffer(TCrLfStyle style = clStyleDos);
~TCoolTextBuffer();

bool Load(LPCTSTR filename, TCrLfStyle style = clStyleAutomatic);
bool Save(LPCTSTR filename, TCrLfStyle style = clStyleAutomatic, bool clearDirty = true);
bool Load(TFile& file, TCrLfStyle style = clStyleAutomatic);
bool Save(TFile& file, TCrLfStyle style = clStyleAutomatic, bool clearDirty = true);
void Clear();

// 'Dirty' flag
void SetDirty(bool dirty = true);
bool IsDirty() const;

// Text access functions
int GetLineCount() const;
int GetLineLength(int index) const;
LPTSTR GetLineText(int index);
TLineFlags GetLineFlags(int index) const;

int GetLineWithFlag(uint32 flag);
void SetLineFlag(int nLine, uint32 dwFlag, bool bSet, bool bRemoveFromPreviousLine = true);
void GetText(const TEditPos& startPos, const TEditPos& endPos, LPTSTR buffer, int buflen, LPCTSTR pszCRLF = NULL);

// Attributes
TCrLfStyle GetCRLFMode() const;
void SetCRLFMode(TCrLfStyle style);

bool IsReadOnly() const;
void EnableReadOnly(bool enable = true);

// Undo/Redo
TUndoNode* GetTopUndoNode();
TRedoNode* GetTopRedoNode();
bool CanUndo() const;
bool CanRedo() const;
bool Undo(TEditPos* newPos=0);
bool Redo(TEditPos* newPos=0);
bool AddUndoNode(TUndoNode* node);
bool AddRedoNode(TRedoNode* node);
void ClearUndoBuffer();
void ClearRedoBuffer();
bool GetUndoDescription(_TCHAR* buffer, int len, TModule* module = gModule);
bool GetRedoDescription(_TCHAR* buffer, int len, TModule* module = gModule);

// More bookmarks
int FindNextBookmarkLine(int nCurrentLine = 0);
int FindPrevBookmarkLine(int nCurrentLine = 0);

// simple search
TEditPos Search(const TEditRange& searchRange, LPCTSTR text,bool caseSens=false, bool wholeWord=false,bool up = false);

bool DeleteText(const TEditRange& range);
bool InsertText(const TEditPos& startPos, LPCTSTR text, TEditPos& endPos);
bool AppendText(int line, LPCTSTR text, int len = -1);
void InsertLine(LPCTSTR text, int len = -1, int pos = -1);

// save and restore all format and font information
void SaveSyntaxDescr(TConfigFile& file);
void RestoreSyntaxDescr(TConfigFile& file);

void GetFont(LOGFONT& lf) const;
void SetFont(const LOGFONT& lf);
void SetUndoSize(uint newmax);
uint GetUndoSize();
uint GetUndoCnt();
void SetRedoSize(uint newmax);
uint GetRedoSize();
uint GetRedoCnt();

Important functions of TCoolTextWnd:

TCoolTextWnd(TWindow* parent,int id,LPCTSTR title,int x, int y,int w, int h, TModule* module = 0);
// properties
bool IsTabsVisible() const;
void EnableTabs(bool viewTabs);
bool IsStreamSelMode() const;
bool IsLineSelMode() const;
bool IsColumnSelMode() const;
void SetSelMode(TSelType newtyp);
bool IsShowInactiveSel() const;
void EnableShowInactiveSel(bool enable = true);
bool IsItalic(int index) const;
bool IsBold(int index) const;
bool IsUnderline(int index) const;
bool IsSelectionMargin() const;
void EnableSelectionMargin(bool bSelMargin);
bool IsCaretEnable() const;
void EnableCaret(bool enable = true);
bool IsSmartCursor() const;
void EnableSmartCursor(bool enable = true);
TEditPos GetCursorPos();
bool IsSelection() const;
void EnableDragDrop(bool enable = true);
bool IsDragDrop() const;
void EnableAutoIndent(bool enable = true);
bool IsAutoIndent() const;
void ShowLineNumbers(bool enable = true);
bool IsLineNumbers() const;

int GetNumLines() const;
bool GetLine(LPTSTR str, int strSize, int lineNumber) const;
void GetFont(LOGFONT& lf) const;
void SetFont(const LOGFONT &lf);
int GetTabSize() const;
void SetTabSize(int tabSize);
TColor GetTxColor(int index) const;
TColor GetBkColor(int index) const;
TFont* GetFont(int index);
int GetLineHeight() const;
int GetLineLength(int index) const;
int GetCharWidth() const;
int GetMarginWidth() const;
void SetMarginWidth(int width);
TCoolTextBuffer::TSyntaxDescr& GetSyntaxDescr(int index) const;
TSyntaxParser* GetSyntaxParser();
void SetSyntaxParser(TSyntaxParser* parser);
void SetSelection(const TEditRange& range);
bool GetSelection(TEditRange& range);
void WordUnderCursor(LPTSTR text, uint size);

// operations
void GoToLine(int lineIndex, bool relative);

Important functions of TCoolSearchWnd:

TCoolSearchWnd(TWindow* parent,int id,LPCTSTR title,int x, int y, int w, int h, TModule* module = 0);

virtual void SetupWindow();
virtual void DoSearch();
virtual bool Search(const TEditPos& startPos, LPCTSTR text, TFindFlags flags = ffNone);

TCoolFindDlg::TData& GetSearchData();
TCoolFindDlg* GetSearchDialog();
void SetSearchDialog(TCoolFindDlg* searchdialog);
uint GetSearchCmd();
void SetSearchCmd(uint searchcmd);

Important functions of TCoolEdit:

TCoolEdit(TWindow* parent,int id,LPCTSTR title,int x, int y, int w, int h, TModule* module = 0);

Important functions of TCoolEditFile:

LPCTSTR GetFileName() const;
void SetFileName(LPCTSTR fileName);
TOpenSaveDialog::TData& GetFileData();
void SetFileData(const TOpenSaveDialog::TData& fd);
virtual void FileNew();
virtual bool FileOpen(LPCTSTR filename);
virtual bool FileSave();
virtual bool FileSaveAs();

 

Revised: October 14, 2000.