Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
"Shachar Shemesh" wine-devel@sun.consumer.org.il wrote:
I'm trying to revamp notepad a little. In particular, I'm trying to add the "select font" option to it. This is problematic under the RICHEDIT control, as each character there can, potentially, have it's own font.
In addition to that, I see such programs as an important tool to unit test various components (in this case - the edit control). As a result, I am wondering whether anyone minds renaming the current notepad to "wordpad", and letting me convert notepad back to EDIT, and add the missing stuff? I promise to get around to wordpad later on.
Personally I don't see the point of having two distinct applications with almost the same basic functionality. I'd suggest to have some flag in notepad which represents current text format and behave accordingly.
Something like this: If plain text - enable font selection menu item and change the whole text font. Otherwise, disable font selection at all.
I don't quite see it that way. Putting aside for a second the technical difficulties of changing the font for an entire RICHEDIT control, if you are going to display each character as a different color, you will need some means of selecting the color for each character. That's what an editor is all about. To me, the difference between notepad and wordpad is the difference between a text editor and a word processor. They are completely different products (albeit - wordpad is a pretty crappy word processor, and so not very useful).
Then again, I have failed to properly load RTF files in the wine notepad, or find anything else in which it is improved when compared to the windows notepad. What am I missing?
Shachar