RichTextFX VS Flowless

RichTextFX isn't great -- documentation is generally unhelpful and not much development lately. I've also found bugs in the component and figuring my way around internals is hard for a new-ish Kotlin dev.

RichTextFX is very much Some Assembly Required and there isn't much documentation. I would definitely say it's not easy to use IMHO. I'm currently working on creating a word processing control with it, but it's still very much a work in progress. If you go the route of using RichTextFX, the repo might help you figure some things out.

RichTextFX provides decent syntax highlighting for JavaFX. The project is barely active but works great nevertheless.

RichTextFX issue

This is a tough one. JavaFX doesn't currently have that capability. This would involve a lot of font metrics and line metrics calculations. The API currently does not have public methods for such. Might be added in future versions of javafx.

RichTextFX - This fits the bill. It uses following subcomponents..

VirtualizedFX and TextFlow will be key to creating stylized text editor if you decide to venture that direction. A game changer. RichtextFX is the most popular but uses Flowless as a virtualised container for TextFlow display, hence has many dependencies.

Flowless - Efficient VirtualFlow for JavaFX. VirtualFlow is a layout container that lays out cells in a vertical or horizontal flow. The main feature of a virtual flow is that only the currently visible cells are rendered in the scene. You may have a list of thousands of items, but only, say, 30 cells are rendered at any given time.

Does C# have something similar to Flowless? This would probably resolve that problem of yours.

Flowless - Those text lines (in my example) won't all fit in memory. This "lower level" library provides better clean up for unused cells than the underlying machinery that for eg ListView provides.

Nice! Are there any comparisons to Flowless for this?