I’m trying to have a text box that has syntax highlighting. To avoid the hassel and rework of implementing my own highlighter, is it possible to incorporate and use XCode’s editor? Similar to how QuickLook shows the contents of files.
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I’m trying to have a text box that has syntax highlighting. To avoid the hassel and rework of implementing my own highlighter, is it possible to incorporate and use XCode’s editor? Similar to how QuickLook shows the contents of files.
You can’t.
QuickLook asks a plugin how to render. Xcode’s QuickLook plugin for source files uses Xcode’s own library, which is not open source.
Here are a few open source initiatives that provide syntax highlighting in Cocoa.