SynEdit

> By the way: I've written an application using mwEdit to support the
> Modelica language (see http://www.modelica.org). I now consider converting
> to SynEdit. Would that be easy?

I think so.  There should be a text how to do this on the SynEdit
website http://synedit.sourceforge.net.
David, are you still reading this?  Please tell me whether you still
have the time and are willing to update this website, otherwise we
might need to find somebody else to do it. 

> Further, once I get the syntax highlighter for the Modelica language
> running in SynEdit, would you consider it to make it part of the
> SynEdit distribution?

What shall I say?
Do you consider this a fairly commonly used language?  It's just that
we have already some specimens for the Weird Section...
On the other hand, if it demonstrates an interesting way to code
things I would be interested to include it.  Just decide yourself, and
send it to me if you think it should be included for the benefit of
others.

Michael

-- 
Michael Hieke
mghie@...

Hi again!
After a couple of hours work, I have now successfully converted my
application to SynEdit v.1.01! Not that I feel a big difference, but it
gives me some new possibilities and since mwEdit is dead, it seems like a
good idea!

As far as the Modelica language is concerned, the language is a language for
modeling physical systems, e.g. electrical systems, mechanical systems or
thermodynamic systems. It saw the first light of day in 1996 and has
continued to grow since then. Today companies like Ford, Toyota and United
Technologies are using it for modeling some of their components.

The only other editor that supports Modelica (as far as I know) is emacs.
Therefore I wrote the Free Modelica Editor in Delphi.

I can give you a link on it if you like.

best regards

Falko

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>
> > By the way: I've written an application using mwEdit to support the
> > Modelica language (see http://www.modelica.org). I now consider converting
> > to SynEdit. Would that be easy?
>
> I think so.  There should be a text how to do this on the SynEdit
> website http://synedit.sourceforge.net.
> David, are you still reading this?  Please tell me whether you still
> have the time and are willing to update this website, otherwise we
> might need to find somebody else to do it.
>
> > Further, once I get the syntax highlighter for the Modelica language
> > running in SynEdit, would you consider it to make it part of the
> > SynEdit distribution?
>
> What shall I say?
> Do you consider this a fairly commonly used language?  It's just that
> we have already some specimens for the Weird Section...
> On the other hand, if it demonstrates an interesting way to code
> things I would be interested to include it.  Just decide yourself, and
> send it to me if you think it should be included for the benefit of
> others.
>
> Michael
>
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> Michael Hieke
> mghie@...
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> When I use TToolbar97 or TToolbar2000, I can't seem to use menu item
> hotkeys... they seem to be snatched by SynEdit.  I tried to get
> around this by (for example) setting the NewLine keystroke to no
> hotkey, thus supposedly freeing the CTRL+N sequence for my File|New
> menu item... but no luck.
> 
> Any clues or workarounds that anyone cares to mention?

I use this setup without *any* problem.
The VCL translates key commands to menu events first, so there should
be no problem.  But under certain conditions you must make sure that
it gets a chance to do so, through an OnShortCut handler for the
application object.  If you use actions (as I suppose) you need to add
something like this:

In the OnCreate handler of the app main form:

...
  Application.OnShortCut := ShortCutHandler;
...

The ShortCutHandler itself:

procedure TMainForm.ShortCutHandler(var Msg: TWMKey; 
  var Handled: boolean);
begin
  if CommandsDataModule <> nil then begin
    if CommandsDataModule.IsShortCut(Msg) then
      Handled := TRUE;
  end;
end;

And in the DataModule where the action lists are (three in this
example):

function TCommandsDataModule.IsShortCut(var Msg: TWMKey): boolean;
begin
  Result := actlStandard.IsShortCut(Msg) or actlView.IsShortCut(Msg)
    or actlDevel.IsShortCut(Msg);
end;

I think there is some FAQ to this effect on Jordans website.

If this is not what helps I could try to help you if you send me a
*stripped-down* version of the app that exhibits the problem.

-- 
Michael Hieke
mghie@...