Ready-made ScalaFX IDE for custom languages
OmniEditor is a ScalaFX library providing a ready-made, user-friendly IDE for custom programming languages as well as an independent code editor with syntax highlighting.
First of all, it supports the basic interactive activities provided by a document workspace:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save as
- Undo
- Redo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Settings
- Help
- About
In addition to this, OmniEditor enables the execution of interpreters/compilers on the code written in the text editor, allowing the user to cancel the process via the Stop button in the user interface (for example, in case of infinite loops).
Finally, for Java/JavaFX development (without Scala), the 2.x series is still available on Hephaestus, its Gradle/Maven repository.
The OmniEditor class provides a customizable IDE application packaged as a Scala class.
To run it, just add a few lines to the start method of your JavaFX/ScalaFX application subclass:
val omniEditor = new OmniEditor(appStrategy)
omniEditor.start(primaryStage)where appStrategy is an instance of a class implementing the AppStrategy interface defined by the library, and primaryStage is the parameter of the start method in your JavaFX/ScalaFX application.
For further information, please refer to the Scaladoc documentation.
Stemming from the "JavaKeywords" example provided by RichTextFX, this class is the core of OmniEditor and creates a code editor easily customizable via CSS.
In particular:
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you can define a chain of regex patterns, each describing which CSS class should be applied to its matching text
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a shortcut method is defined to apply a CSS class to a set of tokens (especially keywords)
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it supports indented new lines, to keep each new line aligned with the previous one whenever the user presses ENTER
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it supports dynamic tabs - the insertion of a given number of space characters in lieu of \t whenever the user presses TAB.
Please, refer to its Scaladoc for more details.
OmniEditor requires:
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Java 8 Update 91 or later compatible
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Scala 2.11.8 or later compatible
For further information about downloading or referencing OmniEditor via Gradle or Maven, please visit its page on Hephaestus, its Gradle/Maven repository.
The very first open source application employing OmniEditor is Chronos IDE, for the Chronos programming language.
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OmniEditor is based on RichTextFX, and was created starting from its brilliant "JavaKeywords" demo
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OmniEditor also employs Helios-fx, an open source ScalaFX library of shared utilities
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The UI icons are taken from the elegant Kids Icons set, by Everaldo Coelho.
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