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Colored text within an editbox

so, in my addon Slash Magic, I have a large, multiline editbox for inputting lua scripts to turn into slash commands. Is there any method within WoW to do syntax coloring within an editbox or would I have to go line editor with a text frame for the code? I think I prefer the huge editbox for coding myself...

WoWLua uses the ForAllIndentsAndPurposes library.

Lua Code:

RED = "|cffff0000"
CLOSE = "|r"
 
editbox:SetText(RED .. "red text" .. CLOSE .. " normal part")

You need to color all text yourself. Or using some existed lib to do this. Search "FAIAP.lua", it's easy to be used.

BTW, I also have a lib to support the lua editor, with many other features, like double-click to select, undo, redo(based on the operation not time), an auto-complete system looks like(use up, down to select, use tab to select and cycle, just like sublimetext) :

Example can be found here : IGAS-Cube

Thanks... those were exactly what I was looking for...