Actipro SyntaxEditor v.2.5

SyntaxEditor is a powerful editing control, similar to a multi-line TextBox, which syntax highlights text and provides an amazing number of state-of-the-art features for code editing. SyntaxEditor is modeled after the code editor in VS.NET and provides nearly all of its functionality.

SyntaxEditor comes packaged with a number of sample language definitions for common languages like C#, VB.NET, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, JScript, VBScript, Python and INI files. Custom language definitions can be developed in an easy to learn XML format and distributed with your applications. To provide maximum functionality in the editor control, SyntaxEditor uses two parsing phases, a lexical parsing phase that tokenizes text, and an optional semantic parsing phase that you can implement to generate extended semantic parse data to be used for code outlining, IntelliPrompt, etc.

SyntaxEditor is best designed for use in IDE (integrated development environment) applications. It also may be creatively used in other scenarios. For instance, you could make the editor read-only and use it for displaying log files or status messages (like in an FTP client) for an application. The possibilities are limitless.

Major features of SyntaxEditor include:

• Multiple language support
• Custom NFA regular expression engine
• XML language definitions
• Lexical parsing of text into tokens
• Open-ended design for semantic parsing of tokens
• Complete separation of the user interface and document/parsing object model
• Code outlining
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Undo/redo action grouping
• Line numbering in line number margin
• Line modification tracking
• Word wrap (character and token wrapping modes)
• Indicators (bookmarks, breakpoints, misspelling markers, etc.) in indicator margin
• Indentation guides
• Whitespace display
• Content dividers
• Block indent/outdent
• Line selection in the selection margin
• Bracket highlighting
• Case sensitivity and auto-correct
• Complete extended Unicode character support and IME support
• Any type of font is supported, including non-monospace fonts
• Triggers for handling keystroke/command combinations
• Feature-rich find/replace object model
• Customizable dialogs
• Four-way or two-way split views
• IntelliPrompt member lists
• IntelliPrompt info tips
• IntelliPrompt quick info
• WYSIWYG printing and print preview with print-specific format settings
• HTML and RTF export
• Custom DataObject support
• Single-line mode
• Token-specific highlighting styles enabling custom styles for user-defined keywords
• A TextStylePreview control that can be used to display text styles on an Options dialog
• Much, much more...

Completely separated the UI from the document/parsing model
Added syntax-highlighting to collapsed node tooltips
Added print settings independent of SyntaxEditor settings
Added display lines to the object model
Added more methods to access the outlining object model
Added the TextStylePreview control
Finalized WinUICore and Shared 1.0 libraries
Reduced memory usage
Significantly improved speed for display line calculation and general rendering
Added Python language definition
Added IME support
Much, much more