# BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit

Colorizing text editor for ImGui

Repository: https://github.com/BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/imguicolortextedit
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: imgui, syntax-highlighting, text-editor, undo-redo, color-palette, sourcecode, autoindent, cplusplus, c, lua, sql, glsl, hlsl, utf8, utf-8
Last push: 2025-11-24T18:58:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 53, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3258, "days_push": 282, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1728, forks 355 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.378436+00:00)

## What it is
A syntax-highlighting text editor widget for the ImGui immediate-mode GUI library, written in C++. It supports undo/redo, UTF-8, multiple languages, error markers, tooltips, and color palettes while maintaining internal state across frames.

## Use cases
- embed a code editor in an ImGui application
- add syntax highlighting to an in-app text editor
- build a shader or script editor inside a game tool
- show inline error markers with tooltips in an editor widget
- edit large source files in a C++ GUI tool

## When to choose
- you are building a desktop tool with ImGui and need an embedded code editor
- you need lightweight syntax highlighting for C/C++, Lua, SQL, GLSL, or HLSL
- you want undo/redo and UTF-8 support without pulling in a full editor framework

## When to avoid
- you need a full standalone editor or IDE
- you need fast syntax highlighting for languages other than C/C++ (regex-based highlighting is slow)
- your project does not use ImGui

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, editor
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors, frontend
- platform: cpp, cross-platform
- tags: imgui, syntax-highlighting, text-editor, undo-redo, utf-8, immediate-mode-gui

## Member repositories
- BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.378436+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:31:57.815254+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.378436+00:00, sha 06afa84bd95c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.