WinApi
FastColoredTextBox
| WinApi | FastColoredTextBox | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 806 | 1,200 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 7 months ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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WinApi
- A .NET library for high-performance Win32 native interop
- Are there any low-level library options for creating desktop apps?
- Any good book recommendation/resource for Win32 api with .NET?
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Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
>What happened?
Building extremely high quality user interfaces has been de-prioritized by our tech gods. See: ElectronJS. Every "native" "desktop" application built upon such technologies has a minimum latency bound that is user-detectable and a memory appetite that cannot be appeased by even the most opulent workstation-class system.
Those of us seeking client->server->client trips that are measured in microseconds (on top of network stack latency) have been forced into the dark nether-reaches of technology. Writing 2D graphics libraries and client/server UI frameworks from scratch has become one of my new favorite hobbies.
All of this is especially upsetting when you consider how much complexity has been magically hand-waved away over the last 20 years with modern OS, language and tool design. You don't even have to go to C/C++ to get the UI performance these days. A high-quality C# implementation using platform-specific graphics interop is more than capable of producing UIs that can respond in the 10-1000 microsecond range. WinApi interop and hooking the window message pump is a trivial exercise. See: https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi et. al.
FastColoredTextBox
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How should i go about making a library to color code (syntax highlighting) a user has written?
You can check on GitHub for some projects that have done the same, something like https://github.com/PavelTorgashov/FastColoredTextBox
What are some alternatives?
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.
MaterialSkin - Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles.
Dragablz - Dragable and tearable tab control for WPF
UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.