MartinHowe
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Csabo said:
The font is hardcoded. I figured it wouldn't be a big job to save then restore the user selected font though, but when I sat down to code it, I found that CodeMax has stopped functioning on my machine :-( So it doesn't look good.
Bummer!
Csabo said:
Why would you turn off syntax highlighting though? It's so helpful.
Not with the defaults that CodeMax uses; the mass of varying fonts, colours and styles distract from reading the actual content. For example, comments in a different colour are fine, but the bright colour and italics kill it - they make the comments more noticable than the actual code; comments should be "just noticable in the background but easy to find when you need to refer to them". For another example, the braces (scope identifiers) are highlighted, not just the keywords; weird and, again, distracting. If you want a good example of "syntax highlighting done right", look at DoomBuilder's SCRIPT editor or the C/C++ defaults in EditPlus.
In complicated languages such as C or Pascal, syntax highlighting is a great help; but for a simple language such as DECORATE, syntax-based formatting is arguably overkill anyway and with the clumsy defaults that CodeMax uses, it actually gets in the way. If I can't customize it, I'd like to turn it off, but CodeMax doesn't even store that setting and editing XWE.INI (I tried it) doesn't help because that only affects keywords - comments are still in italics and braces are still blue :)
In other words, all I want is basic text manipulation functions: good solid functionality, without gloss and glitz!
I know it wouldn't be a simple or quick job and it's nice of you to release XWE as freeware anyway, so thanks very much! However, since your chosen choice of text-editing control is broken, could you at least include some basic functionality in the text editor or the option to use the standard text-editor controls on platforms that have them?
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05-02-06 09:36 
