Demo: dual editor for translators

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 11/30/2004 23:18:38

Demo:

http://www.trichview.com/support/files/dualeditor.zip (only source code)

http://www.trichview.com/support/files/dualeditorfull.zip (source code+exe)

A helper for human translators. It has two editors - one for the original

text and one for the translated text. This screenshot shows English text and

its Russian translation:

http://www.trichview.com/support/files/dualeditor.gif

This demo does two things:

1) synchronizes scrolling

2) highlights the currect paragraph in the focused editor, and the

corresponding

paragraph in another editor.

While (1) is a straightforward procedure, (2) is a kind of trick, because

custom

drawing events were not designed for such things, and it slows down editing

(because

it needs to repaint both editors on each caret movement). If you decide to

implement

(2) in your application, I recommend to make it optional.

Sergey Tkachenko

svt@trichview.com

http://www.trichview.com