Boa and wxPython come with the Scintilla editor, AKA the StyledTextControl. 
I plugged the Csound syntax from my SciTE installation into Python and it 
worked fine.

Regards,
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DavidW" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: a new crossplatform initiative, was Re: Re: intel 
maccsound


> Yes, I know this is off the topic of a suitable editor, but I wanted  to 
> add to an implication in Michael's suggestion. GUIs and GUI  environments 
> have a very steep learning curve (broad more than deep)  and my experience 
> is that people tend to support what they know, and  think it's 
> easier/better etc etc all else. Fair enough, I fossicked  around and came 
> down on the side of wxPython. Important in my decision  was, given the 
> learning curve,  taking account of what secondary tools  templates and 
> examples are 'out there' before making these decisions  re which GUI tools 
> to adopt. From memory, Boa Constructor's wxPython  stuff is build on 
> wxGlade which, I think, is not exclusively python  exclusive, though most 
> of the users tend in that direction.
>
> Re a text editor, what's wrong with VIM as a starting place?  I use it 
> with python consciousness (coloured keyword metatags) and it seems to  be 
> easily scriptable. Admittedly, having used ED for many years, I  thought 
> VI was an amazing advance. With VIM, I'm dazzled - so I might  be a bit 
> out of date. :-)
>
> The python community is still actively debating editor/IDE issues so  we 
> probably won't get any joy out of asking them.
>
> -drw
>
> On 07/01/2008, at 4:02 AM, Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> There are threading issues between Tkinter and Csound that do not  appear 
>> in, at least, wxPython. I recommend wxPython for this reason.  As far as 
>> I know it has the richest set of widgets and the Boa  Constructor IDE can 
>> be used to interactively design GUIs. Highly  recommended.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ S" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:33 AM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: a new crossplatform initiative, was Re: Re: 
>> intel maccsound
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps Python's Tkinter, since there is already an existing
>>> relationship between CSound and Python.
>>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2008 7:21 AM, Andres Cabrera  wrote:
>>>> I wouldn't know where to start either, but I guess it would be  hard to
>>>> get everyone to agree on a particular set of tools. I would  propose 
>>>> Qt,
>>>> which I've used lately, is cross-platform and is quite easy to use.
>>>
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