Yeah - our RichEDit needs some work

[Subhobroto Sinha]

;)

Actually, I noticed this many times before(text not displaying at all in a RichEdit control..)

I am one of those (un)fortunate enough to not have a real Windows, and often download Win32 freeware to see how WINE's doing from time to time...

IMHO, one of the best tests are Steve Gibson's (www.grc.com) freeware tools - this guy writes in pure ASM. and thus we can be sure that his code will be the least messy (lesser MS stuff..)

However, if you try his 'Wizmo' or 'DCOMObulator', you will see that the RichEdit textareas as blank !

Unfortunately, the guy does not release his source (though I have reason to believe he would to anyone asking for it..)

You may try them out in WINE guys, they are REALLY small (small code - that's a rarity on Windows nowdays.. people nowdays do not even use Win32 SDK,leave alone ASM)

Guess we really need some work at RichEdits...

I posted this mainly because it seems Zimler Attila wants to help - so there you are (^-^)

BTW: CodeWeavers have good support for RichEdit controls, but why does not WINE ?

Regards

Subhobroto Sinha

[Joshua Walker]

If you need the source of a program that can uses RTF
as it's native format, can spit out
microsoft-compatible RTF files, has all the tools for
editing Rick Text, and the source is aviliable in C...
then use the Source for "Ted"

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

I would toss it in myself, but I suck a coding. I
wouldn't even know where to begin.

-Joshua




--- Subhobroto  Sinha <subhobrotosinha(a)rediffmail.com>
wrote:
> ;)
>
> Actually, I noticed this many times before(text not
> displaying at all in a RichEdit control..)
>
> I am one of those (un)fortunate enough to not have a
> real Windows, and often download Win32 freeware to
> see how WINE's doing from time to time...
>
> IMHO, one of the best tests are Steve Gibson's
> (www.grc.com) freeware tools - this guy writes in
> pure ASM. and thus we can be sure that his code will
> be the least messy (lesser MS stuff..)
>
> However, if you try his 'Wizmo' or 'DCOMObulator',
> you will see that the RichEdit textareas as blank !
>
> Unfortunately, the guy does not release his source
> (though I have reason to believe he would to anyone
> asking for it..)
>
> You may try them out in WINE guys, they are REALLY
> small (small code - that's a rarity on Windows
> nowdays.. people nowdays do not even use Win32
> SDK,leave alone ASM)
>
> Guess we really need some work at RichEdits...
>
> I posted this mainly because it seems Zimler Attila
> wants to help - so there you are (^-^)
>
> BTW: CodeWeavers have good support for RichEdit
> controls, but why does not WINE ?
>
> Regards
>
> Subhobroto Sinha

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On December 25, 2003 03:04 pm, Joshua Walker wrote:
> If you need the source of a program that can uses RTF
> as it's native format, can spit out
> microsoft-compatible RTF files, has all the tools for
> editing Rick Text, and the source is aviliable in C...
> then use the Source for "Ted"

Unfortunately Ted is GPLed, we need LGPL code to go in Wine.
Any chance the author is willing to relicense it as LGPL?
Someone should ask, I guess...

-- 
Dimi.

Re[2]: Yeah - our RichEDit needs some work

[Phil Krylov]

Hello Joshua,

Thursday, December 25, 2003, 11:04:28 PM, you wrote:

JW> If you need the source of a program that can uses RTF
JW> as it's native format, can spit out
JW> microsoft-compatible RTF files, has all the tools for
JW> editing Rick Text, and the source is aviliable in C...
JW> then use the Source for "Ted"

JW> http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

JW> I would toss it in myself, but I suck a coding. I
JW> wouldn't even know where to begin.

I have to note that richedit should also implement Text Object Model,
that is, ITextDocument, ITextServices etc. (and to be really
compatible with M$ one, it should be based on them).

-- 
Best regards,
 Phil                            mailto:phil(a)newstar.rinet.ru

[Dan Kegel]

Subhobroto Sinha wrote:
> IMHO, one of the best tests are Steve Gibson's (www.grc.com) freeware tools - this guy writes in pure ASM. and thus we can be sure that his code will be the least messy (lesser MS stuff..)
>
> However, if you try his 'Wizmo' or 'DCOMObulator', you will see that the RichEdit textareas as blank !
>
> Unfortunately, the guy does not release his source (though I have reason to believe he would to anyone asking for it..)

Thanks for the tip, I'll try his stuff out sometime...
- Dan