Scintilla and Tide Beta version 0.90.
Site last modified April 29 1999.

Changes since previous (April 1) shown with coloured background.
The big news in this release is GTK+/Linux support.
As this change has affected much of the source code, it is likely that there have been some regressions. The previous version is still available from the download page if there are any problems with this version.

Scintilla is a free source code editing component. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. The selection margin can contain markers like those used in debuggers to indicate breakpoints and the current line. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts.
It comes with complete source code and may be used in any free project or commercial product.

Tide is a Tiny Integrated Development Environment based upon Scintilla. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs.

Development of Scintilla started as an effort to improve the text editor in PythonWin. After being frustrated by problems in the Richedit control used by PythonWin, it looked like the best way forward was to write a new edit control. The biggest problem with Richedit and other similar controls is that they treat styling changes as important persistent changes to the document so they are saved into the undo stack and set the document's dirty flag. For source code, styling should not be persisted as it can be mechanically recreated.
PythonWin build 124 includes a copy of Scintilla. Scintilla version 0.90 uses different notification messages to version 0.82 and so will not work well with PythonWin 124. The forthcoming PythonWin 125 should be compatible with Scintilla 0.90.

Scintilla and Tide are currently available for Intel Win32 and have been run on Windows 95 and NT. Here is a screenshot of Tide.
A version for GTK+/X/Linux is being developed but is quite shaky at present.

You can download a beta version of Scintilla and Tide.

Related sites.

Bugs and To Do list.

History.

You can write to me, Neil Hodgson, at neilh@hare.net.au.