Embedding Scite

[BillLuvsU]

Does anybody know how to embed scite in a GUI? I'm updating AutoIt studio and thought it would be cool to have a scite like editor instead of just an input box. I think I remember reading somewhere that you can do it with SciLexar.dll or somthing.

[evilertoaster]

http://www.a1vbcode.com/app-3616.asp has something about doing it in VB. I guess its an activex control so...possible=yes, how=no idea XD

[BillLuvsU]

I found this:

http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Steps.html

but it's for c++ and dosn't seem to be translatable to AutoIt? any ideas?

[evilertoaster]

ideas...sure

1. would be using dllcall to try and emulate the features...

idea 2. just do it in C++ and make it a plugin

[BillLuvsU]

Idea #1 wouldn't work because of how it works, creating a new Window type, whatever that is.

Idea #2 will work but I don't have a C++ compiler here at school. And It wouldn't be a plugin but a .dll file.

[BillLuvsU]

Ok, this is what I came up with for the dll. But I can't test this (having no compiler). This look good? And could sombody test this? Basically one argument, hwnd type, that is the hwnd of the GUI you want to put it in... sooo

DllCall( "MyScite.dll", "hwnd", $MainGUIHandle )

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>

#ifdef _MANAGED
#pragma managed(push, off)
#endif

//This is where we define the externaly accessible function
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport)int embed(hwnd Parent)
{
     hmod = LoadLibrary("SciLexer.DLL");
        if (hmod==NULL)
        {
            return -1
        }
    hwndScintilla = CreateWindowEx(0,
        "Scintilla","", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | WS_CLIPCHILDREN,
        10,10,500,400,Parent,(HMENU)GuiID, hInstance,NULL);
    return 1

}
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HMODULE hModule,
                       DWORD  ul_reason_for_call,
                       LPVOID lpReserved
                     )
{
    return TRUE;
}

#ifdef _MANAGED
#pragma managed(pop)
#endif

yes? no?

Edited April 12, 2007 by fear1313

[Uten]

hmm, I know I'm afully late on this but you do know that site is manely based on scintilla? And a search for scintilla in Scripts will give you a lot of samples!

Oh, well I'm probably to late so just for the reference...

[Jos]

hmm, I know I'm afully late on this but you do know that site is manely based on scintilla? And a search for scintilla in Scripts will give you a lot of samples!

Oh, well I'm probably to late so just for the reference...

.. but that would mean you have to write all SciTE functionality yourself ...