The Code Editor Control

Description

You can turn a standard text box control into a Xbasic Code Editor using the %L% formatting code. You should define column and row dimensions for the text box that are large enough to display a reasonable size code editor. Here is an example dialog with an embedded code editor.

Code = ""
Result = ui_dlg_box("Script",<<%dlg%
{region}
Type in some Xbasic code, then click OK to execute the code.;
{line=1,0};
[%L%.80,15code]
{endregion};
{region}
<*15&OK> <15&Cancel>;
{endregion}
%dlg%)
if result = "&OK" then
    evaluate_template(code)
end if

This script produces this dialog:

To test out the code editor, type this into the code editor, then click the OK button:

Ui_msg_box("Hello","Hello World",ui_information_symbol)

You should see this dialog appear:

In the above example, %L% formatting code specifies that the text box should be transformed into a code editor. The size specification for the code editor is .80,15, which specifies that the code editor is 80 characters wide and 15 lines high.

Limitations

Desktop applications only