thinAir: what Roberto is working on ...

**ErosOlmi** · 23-09-2008, 23:01

No comments ;D

**Michael Hartlef** · 24-09-2008, 05:47

;D

**Petr Schreiber** · 24-09-2008, 08:55

Roberto,

that will be cool!
If I get it right there is even double view on single file?

The folding is very nice feature.

I keep my fingers crossed!

Petr

**José Roca** · 24-09-2008, 09:06

It looks like my editor

Do you have switched to Scintilla?

**RobertoBianchi** · 24-09-2008, 09:22

Hi José,

yes I added to ThinAIR the choice of which editor to use the standard one (based on the built-in edit control) or the advanced (based on Scintilla edit control).
I used yours editor sources for learning how to control Scintilla, thank you for this.

Ciao,
Roberto

**Michael Hartlef** · 24-09-2008, 09:23

Why two editor controls?

**RobertoBianchi** · 24-09-2008, 09:44

Hi Michael,

Because the editor must work else if the user has not the scintilla dll or it has a wrong version.
Also the two editors have a quite different behavior, so every user can choose what they prefer.
Maybe in the future it will remain only one. :-\

Bye,
Roberto

**José Roca** · 24-09-2008, 10:48

Because the editor must work else if the user has not the scintilla dll or it has a wrong version.

Ship it with the editor.

**ErosOlmi** · 24-09-2008, 11:01

Yes, of course we will ship Scintilla dll with the editor but it will require time to align current editor functionalities with Scintilla ones. So having the option to switch from one to the other can solve some problems during phase 1 of switching. In future versions we will definitely move to Scintilla only. Anyway it is a Roberto decision.

We have seen that maintaining an editor control is a very hard job. Roberto did a great job with his current editor control but going on with development, even if it give us great freedom, require a lot of time. Scintilla seems a good solution because we are able to compile C source code so if for some remote reasons we need to personalize it we can do it.

Code Browser + Tabs + Scintilla will put thinAir into a new level of usability.
Hope you will like it. Maybe not all functionalities will be ready immediately but we will work on it.

Ciao
Eros