App Designer - Aligning UI components with lines in a multiline text area

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I'm essentialy trying to create an app that acts as a debugger for a different programming language, FORTRAN to be specific. Feel free to suggest a different route for this if you can think of one, but downloading a separate program to do this is not an option due to certain restrictions. I want to have a text area where a script can be edited, and have a checkbox or some clickable UI component next to each line that I can use to insert breakpoints, just like the MATLAB script editor interface.
I tried including a List Box next to the script area, but I couldn't get the line spacing to match up. I tried including a Text Area with a hyperlink on each line, but it doesn't look like hyperlinks are possible. I could try programatically inserting a checkbox next to each line, but the alignment needs to be perfect and the line spacing of a Text Box seems to change between the editor and the launched app, so I feel like that would be an error-prone solution. It's important that the script area perform just like a normal text editor, so I'd rather avoid using a List Box workaround or something similar.

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Sivani Pentapati
Sivani Pentapati on 29 Nov 2021
Edited: Sivani Pentapati on 7 Dec 2021
Hi Philip,
Based on my understanding you want to embed editor with breakpoints in App designer. Currently we are not supporting editor with breakpoints as UI component in App Designer. I have brought this issue to the notice of the concerned people and it might be considered for a future release.
There is a temporary workaround where you can group a text field and check-box button into one component, duplicate this component and align all the duplicates vertically. This would create a dedicated checkbox for each line of the code. Attaching the code for a sample application for your reference.

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