Re: just a suggestion (richedit.dll)

[Jonathan Wilson]

Tom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You could look into riched20.dll and riched32.dll
> as wine is in need of these in a bad way :)

Unfortunatly, I have never programmed richedit stuff.
But, if someone can provide 4 things, I might actually give it a go:
1.an existing control or library that can do the actual rendering of the 
text (with the colors, fonts, bold and so on)
2.an example program that shows the usage of RichEdit (something that has 
source code) and that will work just fine using MS richedit.dll under Wine 
that I can use as a test subject (something that uses straight C code and 
calls richedit directly, i.e. doesnt use libraries like MFC)
3.documentation on the programming interface of this dll. Having a working 
clone header and library file (perhaps the one from MingW32 if the licence 
of that file is ok) would be ideal as it would give me a place to start.
and 4.details on anything I am not allowed to do to the MS dll in the corse 
of making this new one (I know copying stuff is forbidden because its a 
copyright violation but am I allowed to for example disassemble 
richedit.dll or step through it in a debugger to get a better idea of how 
it works or is that considered too legally risky?)

PS

[Jonathan Wilson]

> 1.an existing control or library that can do the actual rendering of the 
> text (with the colors, fonts, bold and so on)

When I say this, what I actually meant to say is "I will only do this if 
there is an easier way (that I can use) than manually rendering it via 
calls to gdi32.dll"

PS

[Mike Hearn]

> When I say this, what I actually meant to say is "I will only do this if 
> there is an easier way (that I can use) than manually rendering it via 
> calls to gdi32.dll"

For various reasons, it's extremely hard to steal stuff from native
GTK/Qt controls to fulfil needs like that. It's certainly possible to
copy designs/algorithms though.

PS

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On July 19, 2003 07:06 am, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > 1.an existing control or library that can do the actual rendering of the
> > text (with the colors, fonts, bold and so on)
>
> When I say this, what I actually meant to say is "I will only do this if
> there is an easier way (that I can use) than manually rendering it via
> calls to gdi32.dll"

The richedit control is a big beast, I suggest you start with something
smaller. You can always work on it a bit later on, once you get a better 
handle on things.