A Qt5 designer widget plugin for syntax highlighting and editing G-code:

Based upon QPlainTextEdit, with added comment and syntax highlighting plus line highlighting for use showing currently executing line in a GUI.

To use clone and build with:

gh repo clone QGCoder/libqgcodeeditor && cd libqgcodeeditor
qmake && make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

To run one of the examples:

cd examples
qmake && make
./simple/simple
./contextMenu/contextMenu

A benchmark can be found in examples/pipe/.

Ubuntu/Debian packaging

To build and install libqgcodeeditor as an Ubuntu/Debian package, run:

gh repo clone QGCoder/libqgcodeeditor && cd libqgcodeeditor
sudo apt -y -qq install devscripts equivs
mk-build-deps -i -s sudo -t "apt --yes --no-install-recommends"
dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../libqgcodeeditor*deb

– Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.

Authors

• ArcEye – ArcEye - Initial version based on QtMDI.
• Jakob Flierl – koppi - Debian packaging.