codeeditapp/codeedittextview

A text editor specialized for displaying and editing code documents. Features include basic text editing, extremely fast initial layout, support for handling large documents, customization options for code documents.

Documentation

This package is fully documented here.

Usage

This package exports a primary TextView class. The TextView class is an NSView subclass that can be embedded in a scroll view or used standalone. It parses and renders lines of a document and handles mouse and keyboard events for text editing. It also renders styled strings for use cases like syntax highlighting.

import CodeEditTextView
import AppKit

/// # ViewController
/// 
/// An example view controller for displaying a text view embedded in a scroll view.
class ViewController: NSViewController, TextViewDelegate {
    private var scrollView: NSScrollView!
    private var textView: TextView!
    
    var text: String = "func helloWorld() {\n\tprint(\"hello world\")\n}"
    var font: NSFont!
    var textColor: NSColor!
    
    override func loadView() {
		textView = TextView(
            string: text,
            font: font,
            textColor: textColor,
            lineHeightMultiplier: 1.0,
            wrapLines: true,
            isEditable: true,
            isSelectable: true,
            letterSpacing: 1.0,
            delegate: self
        )
        textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        scrollView = NSScrollView()
        scrollView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true
        scrollView.hasHorizontalScroller = true
        scrollView.documentView = textView
        self.view = scrollView
		NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
            scrollView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor),
            scrollView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor),
            scrollView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor),
            scrollView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor)
        ])

        textView.updateFrameIfNeeded()
    }
}

License

Licensed under the MIT license.

Dependencies

Special thanks to Matt Massicotte for the great work he's done!

Package Metadata

Repository: codeeditapp/codeedittextview

Default branch: main

README: README.md