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Expression Editor

ExpressionEditor is a Qt4 based application intended to help in testing and writing regular expressions (regexps). The application provides both text-based and graphical methods of editing regexps and will support PCRE, POSIX Extended and Qt4 format regexps. It is available under the terms of the GPLv3.0+.

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[29th Jul 2010] Added ICU to CREDITS
[28th Jul 2010] Updated README to reflect the CMake build system
[28th Jul 2010] Trying include_directories as a call
[28th Jul 2010] Fixed silly mistake
[28th Jul 2010] Added install target and resource (qrc) file to cmake
[28th Jul 2010] Updated cmake build file
[28th Jul 2010] Altered CMakeLists.txt to auto-detect optional dependencies
[27th Jul 2010] Added initial CMakeLists.txt - further testing required
[27th Jul 2010] Fixed silly mistake to make UnicodeString to QString conversion work
[26th Jul 2010] Added support for ICU regular expressions
[26th Jul 2010] Added in conditional blocks to the project file to not build PCRE/POSIX
[25th Jul 2010] Added in conditional blocks to remove PCRE and POSIX when compiled with
[19th Jul 2010] Fixed incorrect handling of escaped ] in character classes
[15th Jul 2010] A bit more settings dialog work
[13th Jul 2010] Added initial settings dialog
[12th Jul 2010] Added configure button to main window, now for the settings
[1st Jun 2010] Patch to prevent a substr crash when matching with PCRE.
[3rd Feb 2010] Switched to Qt standard QKeySequence objects for menu shortcuts.
[30th Jan 2010] Correct expand behaviour on opening expression. (Linux)
[30th Jan 2010] The text input should update its height automatically on a window

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[29th Jul 2010] Back to Work
[24th Jan 2010] Expression Editor Update (2)
[24th Dec 2009] Expression Editor Update
[7th Dec 2009] A New Project

External Links

http://github.com/aelliott/expressioneditor

Back to Work

Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Well, been a while since the last blog post I’ve written, and a similar stretch of time since I really got much work done on ExpressionEditor. But as you might have guessed since the blog is winding back into life, so to is my work on EE. Changes So Far I’m still working my way [...]

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Expression Editor Update (2)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010

Since I’ve had some more time to work on Expression Editor recently I thought it was about time I wrote another update for the progress of the project, and some related news that affects it. From Last Time… In the previous post I noted a few areas in progress and some that I wanted to [...]

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Expression Editor Update

Thu, 24 Dec 2009

A fair bit of progress has been made since my last blog entry so I thought I’d note a few things that have landed in the repository and a few things that I intend to add at a later date. Drag and Drop Initial support for drag and drop editing has been added. You can [...]

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A New Project

Mon, 07 Dec 2009

I have recently been working on a new project under the working title of “Expression editor”, an application which allows for easy editing of Regular Expressions (regexps) in a similar way to KDE3.x’s KRegExpEditor. I used to love KRegExpEditor for the incredibly useful functionality it provided, and in particular the visualisation of the regular expression [...]

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