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Asked By | cgeadas |
Textedit has lots of properties, methods, styles and signals, but I’ve found no tutorial or documentation on what does what and how to use this control.
Since Godot uses it’s own controls, I can see that Textedit is very powerful (I’m assuming it’s the control used for the code editor). But how to use it? What does what?
I’ve found a video on Youtube ( https://youtu.be/nk0YQGb08IA ) about this but does not deal with any of the features that make it unique.
I’ve already asked for help at Reddit and I’ve got only one answer pointing me to the docs page (which does not explain anything, since it’s an API reference - TextEdit — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English) and to the source code of the control (which it’s not useful since I don’t know the engine’s inner working).
I’ve done some experiments with various options but so far I’ve only got some keywords to get some color, but other words also appear with colors I haven’t set… Just “pushing all the buttons” hardly teaches me something useful.
Can somebody help?
With all due respect, pushing all the buttons is a pretty good way to learn, at least in my experience, albeit in a time-consuming way. Learning is often frustrating and time-consuming. What about the documentation page is unclear? Your question is very broad. If you explained your goal and the impediments you’re facing to achieve that goal, you might get more robust answers (I also find that writing down my goal and the specific problems sometimes makes the answer clearer, without needing input from others).
DDoop | 2020-07-09 22:00
DDoop, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. For the last 6 months, I’ve been working with Godot everyday, fulltime and I’ve launched 2 games, make 3 prototypes and 2 tools. All this as been done thanks to “pushing all the buttons”. But there must be a minimum documentation to start with because, if I don’t know what’s possible, I don’t know what I can/want to do.
Textedit has lots of features. I would like to know how keywords work, how syntax highlight works, how code completion works, how selection, line folding and undo work. How to use breakpoints? What is automated and what must I code for these to work? If I have a keyword with a color, why do other words in my text get highlighted with other colors beside my defined keyword? Knowing the basics of the control allows for educated guessing and defining for what to (and not to) use.
Wanting to know what a thing does and the minimum of how it does it is always a broad question. Does anyone knows how to work with Textedit and provide a basic guidance?
cgeadas | 2020-07-09 22:21