Developing Text Editor
 

Hie,

I'm currently doing my final year project and it's about developing a text editor for C programming with added functions in it i.e. line count, syntax highlighting etc.

So, can u guys share with me any knowledge on how it can be developed? Is Java suitable or is there something else better?

Anything at all, pls. I would like to know. I really appreaciate it. Thanx!

I suspect your choice of language is going to be strongly influenced by what GUI libraries are available for it and how easy they are to extend. There are already a number of java based editors around, however, so Java would seem a reasonable choice.

I recommend going to the Java API and looking at the GUI (javax.swing and java.awt) and the classes to determine whether what you need is there and suitable. Most of all, I hope you do know Java if you're concidering making it in this language. I don't know much about making a C compiler in Java, so I can't help you there.

I did a Text Editor in Java. Developing it was quite easy. Although, the text editor didn't have syntax highlighting though.

I know its' possible do have syntax highlighting or Eclipse IDE, which was made in Java, wouldn't have that feature.

You could check out gtksourceview's source code maybe:
http://gtksourceview.sourceforge.net/
It's not java though.