Software Update: SciTE 5.0.1

Version 5.0.1 of SciTE has been released. Scintilla Text Editor is an open source and cross platform text editor. It uses the open source Scintilla Text Editor library, which is from the same creators. This library is also used by other programs, including Notepad++. Downloads are available for Windows and Linux, and a commercial version for macOS can be found in Apple’s app store. In addition, there is a standalone executable that can be conveniently carried on a USB stick. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Release 5.0.1:

• Remove SetLexer, SetLexerLanguage, and LoadLexerLibrary methods. These have been superceded by Lexilla and the SetILexer API.
• Improve the platform layer interface. Add support for stroke width and translucency to drawing methods. Allow clipping to nest. Add methods for UTF-8 text. Add methods for encoding conversion. Use these changes to improve appearance.
• Add SCI_SUPPORTSFEATURE method to allow applications to determine which features are available and to then choose workarounds for missing features like translucent drawing.
• Add colouralpha type to Scintilla.iface for APIs that set both color and transparency together as an RGBA value.
• Add SCI_INDICSETSTROKEWIDTH to set stroke width of indicators.
• Add methods to set translucency and stroke width of markers. SCI_MARKERSETFORETRANSLUCENT, SCI_MARKERSETBACKTRANSLUCENT, SCI_MARKERSETBACKSELECTEDTRANSLUCENT, SCI_MARKERSETSTROKEWIDTH.
• Add shapes with curved and rounded ends to EOL annotations as EOLANNOTATION_*.
• Add SCI_SETELEMENTCOLOUR and related APIs to change colors of visible elements. Implement SC_ELEMENT_LIST* to change colors of autocompletion lists.
• Support Unicode characters as margin markers with SC_MARK_CHARACTER.
• EOL annotation text is now always treated as UTF-8 instead of in the document encoding.
• Change graphics coordinates from float (32-bit) to double (64-bit). Fixes uneven line heights in large documents on Cocoa. Increases memory use. Bug #2224.
• On Cocoa, fix drawing in revealed area after increasing window. Bug #2238.
• On Win32, fix crash with SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITERETAIN. Bug #2243.
• On GTK, changes in system font settings (such as from Tweak) are detected and position caches are invalidated since different font display options, such as antialiasing, change character shape and thus positions.