Scintilla Programmers Editor and GWindows

Scintilla Programmers Editor and GWindows

[David Botton]

Since GWindows now includes complete bindings to Scintilla, an excellent
programmers editor with support for Ada. I sent the text below off to the
Scintilla user group. I though it would be of interest here as well. I
ultimately plan on making sure every Delphi/C++ Builder and VB/VC++
programmer knows that GNavi (The Open Source Delphi/VB) exists ;-)

As a test of Scintilla, I embedded with little work the Scintilla control in
to my GNavi "proof of concept" and already have a some what functional Ada
IDE :-)

I hope to add a little more functionality (spec. some basic code generation
for GUI layouts) to the GNavi "proof of concept" (meaning that I just tried
out some ideas in the code and this is very much not what GNavi will
ultimately be) and I'll make it available for people to play with :-)

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As part of a larger product called GWindows - A rapid development Open
Source GUI framework for Windows with advanced features like ActiveX and
Database support and more, which is yet part of a larger product called
GNavi - An open source Delphi / VB like environment for Windows (but using a
language reliable enough to control the Boeing 777 with your family on board
;-)

I have created a compete binding to Scintilla as part of the GWindows
framework and plan on using it (and already have for some very raw proofs of
concept) as the editor for GNavi.

http://www.adapower.com/gwindows

Ada is an object-oriented general purpose programming language with Pascal
roots and known as the international language of software engineering. It
has built-in concurrency, built-in exception handling, built-in generic
templates, built-in distributed execution, standard interfaces to other
programming languages and libraries, compiles to Java Byte Code and just
about any OS under the sun, and a rich set of primitives for getting at and
putting to work all that expertise you've ever desired to embed in your
software.

The GNavi project uses GNAT, the gcc Ada compiler. Making it a complete open
source replacement for advanced Win32 development on all levels.

David Botton