Re: Better way to do a syntax highlight

[Rob Benton <rob benton conwaycorp net>]

Jupercio Juliano wrote:
>     Hi.
>     I'm trying to do a IDE to program microcontrolles using the C 
> language and it is my first program in gtkmm.
>     For the editor I'm using TextView+TextBuffer and need to highlight 
> the code in C.
>     Is textview a good idea to do this?
>     I found gtksourceview, but I can't understand it so much.
>     And how I retrieve a line of my text in buffer, I can't do it with 
> get_text method?
>     Thanks for any help.
>
> regards

Well last time I checked Gedit used gtksourceview so you might look at 
its source if you're interested in using that.  Or you could try 
scintilla: http://www.scintilla.org , which is what Anjuta uses (I'm 99% 
sure) for syntax highlighting and does a really good job.