Objective Edit provides a complete, full-featured source code editor, similar in functionality to the editor in Visual Studio. The primary features of Objective Edit include:

1.2.1 Feature Additions

1.2.1.1 Application Wizard

1.2.1.2 Animated Scrolling

The SECEditController::WindowScroll() method in Objective Edit versions 6.0 and 6.01 produced an animated scrolling effect by repeatedly calling ScrollWindow() to scroll the window one line at a time. While acceptable with short files, this effect is too slow with longer files.

In Objective Edit 6.02 and later, animated scrolling is enabled by default for backward compatibility, but it can be disabled. To disable animated scrolling call the SECEditController::SetScrollAnimation() method with a FALSE parameter:

SECEditController::SetScrollAnimation(FALSE);

1.2.1.3 Gutter Manipulation

Objective Edit now offers a more customizable gutter, where the gutter area is potentially divided into two regions, the index region and the mark region. In the index region, a zero-based line number for each text line can be displayed. There is also added support for formatting the line sequence numbers (or other selected information) within the gutter region.

The mark region is comparable to the old gutter, where bookmarks, breakpoints or other mark types are displayed. For backward compatibility, the default setting only displays the mark region.

1.2.1.4 HTML Output

Objective Edit now includes support for HTML output from the edit control. This feature allows the edit control to add markup information (according to the current language configuration of the editor) so that the appearance of the HTML that is output from the control is similar to the presentation within Objective Edit. This means, for example, that if Objective Edit is configured to highlight comments in green and language keywords in blue, green comments and blue keywords will be similarly colored when the HTML output from Objective Edit is loaded into a web browser.

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This feature works with both ANSI and Unicode builds of the library; the Unicode version of Objective Edit generates marked up Unicode HTML output.

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The HTML data extractor component requires a third-party Regex library. The Regex++ v.2.2.4 library, which makes powerful regular expression matching functionality available to projects incorporating Objective Edit, is now distributed with Objective Edit (since version 6.1). Regex++ is used to facilitate the new HTML export functionality described above.

Objective Edit has an optional dependency on the Regex++ (regular expression) libraries, which in turn have other dependencies. As a result, additional files (other than the Objective Edit DLLs themselves) may need to be distributed with your application.

Use of the HTML output feature is straightforward. Client code simply invokes the class SECEdit method SaveHTMLFile() with 1 or 2 parameters. The first parameter is a pathname to the desired HTML output file. The optional second parameter is the name of a desired font. If a font face option is provided, the corresponding tag will be inserted into the HTML output. If the font is omitted, no tag will be inserted and the HTML output will be presented using the default font of whatever browser is later used to view the file.

An example invocation of the SaveHTMLFile() method is as follows:

m_SECEditCtrl.GetEdit()->SaveHTMLFile(_T("my.html"),_T("Arial Unicode MS"));

As a result of the above code, the Objective Edit control's contents will be output in HTML format to a file called "my.html." A tag will be inserted specifying that the text be drawn using the Arial Unicode font.

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The font name parameter is optional.

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1.2.1.5 New Language Configuration .ini Files