darrenmothersele / ofxEditor

A simple text editor for openFrameworks for live coding. Features multiple text buffers and the ability to define custom commands.

ofxEditor

A simple text editor for openFrameworks for live coding. Features multiple text buffers and the ability to define custom commands.

Usage

Add to your openFrameworks project and initialize an editor variable passing in the number of text buffers you require (defaults to 1). For example:

class testApp : public ofBaseApp{

  ofxEditor editor;
  bool editorVisible;

public:
  testApp() : editor(9) {}

  // Editor command callbacks are static methods
  static void toggleEditor(void *);

  // ... rest of your oF app ...

};

You can define custom commands in your setup function, for example:

void testApp::setup(){
  editor.addCommand('a', this, &testApp::toggleEditor);
}

void testApp::toggleEditor(void * _o) {
  ((testApp *)_o)->editorVisible = !((testApp *)_o)->editorVisible;
}

To get the current text in the editor you need to reference the getText() method of the current buffer.

editor.buf[editor.currentBuffer]->getText();

For the editor to be visible you need to draw it in your main oF app draw loop:

if (editorVisible) {
  editor.draw();
}

Limitations

The code includes a workaround for a bug in GLFW as mentioned here: openframeworks/openFrameworks#2562

The clipboard code only works on OSX.