skia/experimental/editor/README.md

#Editor#

This is an experimental Editor layer that abstracts out SkShaper text layeout for easy embedding into an application. The Editor layer is agnostic about the operating system.

+--------------------------------+
|Application                     |
+-+----+-------------------------+
  |    |
  |    |
  |  +-v-------------------------+
  |  |Editor                     |
  |  +-+----+--------------------+
  |    |    |
  |    |    |
  |    |  +-v--------------------+
  |    |  |SkShaper              |
  |    |  +-+--------+-----------+
  |    |    |        |
  |    |    |        |
+-v----v----v--+   +-v-----------+
|Skia          |   |HarfBuzz, ICU|
+--------------+   +-------------+

The Application layer must interact with the:

• Windowing system
• File system
• Clipboard
• Keyboard/mouse input.

Try it out:

tools/git-sync-deps
bin/gn gen out/default
ninja -C out/default editor
out/default/editor whitespace.txt