The version of Qext that worked with CUTE

[Phil Thompson]

On 20/05/2021 02:03, Roland Hughes wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> It's not the serial port.
> 
> qextscintilla.h
> 
> I found packages in the repo that provided the header, but it was also
> looking for some other classes based on that and other scintilla
> headers.
> 
> The real problem with OpenSource is abandonware.
> 
> The real problem with abandonware is nobody sweeps up the Web pages 
> listing it.
> 
> https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ScintillaEditorFamily
> 
> That is how I got pointed at CUTE. It seemed interesting to look at.
> The entire build process is something of a house of cards. It appears
> to have been designed around one building whatever version of
> Scintilla it was using in a directory at the same level. Not really
> able to adapt to installed headers and libraries.
> 
> cute.cpp: In member function ‘void CUTE::initEditActions()’:
> cute.cpp:743: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:747: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:751: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:755: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:759: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:763: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> cute.cpp:766: error: ‘QextScintillaBase’ has not been declared
> 
> The header file was/is looking for constants to use within enums.
> 
> /** namespace for whole configuration */
> 
> namespace Config
> {
>     /** enum for GUI style */
>     enum { Default=0, CDE, Motif, MotifPlus, Platinum, SGI, Windows };
>     /** enum for MDI mode */
>     enum { ChildframeMode=0, TabPageMode, ToplevelMode };
>     /** enum for auto indentation */
>     enum { AiMaintain = QextScintilla::AiMaintain, AiOpening =
> QextScintilla::AiOpening,
>     AiClosing = QextScintilla::AiClosing};
>     /** reads the configuration file .cuterc*/
>     void readConfig();
>     /**writes the configuration file .cuterc*/
>     void writeConfig();
> 
> }

 From memory, 'Qext' was the original prefix used by QScintilla for its 
API. TrollTech then allowed you to register prefixes with them to help 
avoid name clashes so 'Qsci' was registered and used by QScintilla from 
then on.

Phil