Edit Control about bgracontrols HOT 15 CLOSED

Ok, it worth reporting it in the bugtracker, so it can be fixed, can you add some screenshot so I can share there?

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You can use https://github.com/Alexey-T/ATSynEdit in your package maybe.

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Hi, that looks really advanced. It can be used like a normal edit control in some way?

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Yes, it has TATEdit which is one-line version (child) of TATSynEdit.

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Ok thanks. For sure having that control into account, we only need to implement the painting (like rounded borders and gradient fill for example).

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So I suppose there is a drawer that can be customized? That would be great to have a beautiful syntax highlighted editor. Though to make a TEdit seems a bit much. Rather a TSynEdit?

Also I wonder if it handles unicode stuff, like non spacing markers, right-to-left script and embedding. This is handled by the multiline layout in BGRATextBidi. If you look at the following example, you will see that this could be made a new component by plugging it in a TBCStyleCustomControl (the control need to be focusable).
https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/tree/master/test/testbiditext2

I am thinking maybe we can do a TBCEdit with a Multiline boolean property based on BGRATextBidi. Making it single line is just about filtering out characters that split lines/paragraphs.

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I'm not sure if theming a full syntax highlighter will be a good idea, since anyways modern code editors doesn't use gradients and rounded borders, it's always plain colors.

But yes it will be good to make an edit control, and if we can do 2 different ones will be good too, one with synedit and other with bcstylecustomcontrol to have more options, doesn't matter having 2 different controls, anyways for example we have a lot of button controls to choose from, and every single one is useful for something.

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Attached a project that uses a TBCPanel and a TEdit.
EditControl.zip

You can use a plain color for the background of the TEdit and of the TBCPanel.

That is how it looks under Windows. How it looks under Linux and macOS, please test, and if it looks ok we can make a simple component including that template, like we did for BCCombobox that's just a button and a listbox 👍

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Hi, anyone tested it, looks good on Linux and macOS?

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It works on MacOS. Though the cursor is black so can't really see it on the dark background.

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Ok, so it doesn't work well on all platforms..

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Yeah but it is more like a bug of TEdit with custom background color

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Reported: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=38033

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Thanks =)

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Hope the bug is fixed soon. I think we don't need an edit, just using a BCPanel as border and a regular edit looks fine for me:

So I close this, if at some time we need it for some other reason, we can try coding that.

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