Month: August 2009

Niw Markdown Editor

Posted on August 30, 2009

For the past three weeks I’ve been working on an editor for working with plain text files and making it easy to add markdown syntax to them. My main goal is to make it easier to format the large number of ebooks I have. Almost all of them are plain... Continue reading

QPlainTextEdit With In Line Spell Check

Posted on August 22, 2009

Update: Simplified Highlighter.highlightBlock function One thing Qt lacks is an integrated spell check in the text entry components. For a project I’m working on this is necessary. Using python-enchant and the QSyntaxHighlighter I was able to implement this functionality. Here is how to add an in line spell check support... Continue reading

Better QPlainTextEdit With Line Numbers

Posted on August 19, 2009

My last post was an implementation of a Qt widget which displays text with line numbers. I found that it has a few limitations. The biggest was a performance penalty when dealing with large documents. I’ve since re-factored and rewritten the class to make the performance acceptable. I’ve also cleaned... Continue reading

QTextEdit With Line Numbers

Posted on August 15, 2009

Here is a Qt4 widget written in Python that allows for line numbers next to a QTextEdit. Similar to what is seen in a number of text editors such as gedit and kate. from PyQt4.Qt import QFrame, QWidget, <span... Continue reading

Calibre Two Weeks in Review

Posted on August 2, 2009

This time I missed last weeks week in review because I simply forgot. I’m hoping to keep this to a minimum in the future. The big news is calibre 0.6 has been released. Kovid is now back to his regular (weekly at the least) bug fix releases too. As of... Continue reading