Hi,
Thanks Robin for the thorough answer. Exploring the use of
wxRichTextCtrl was the venue I proposed at the meeting. Looks like your
expertize is saving us lots of time here... :)
One thing in your comment though made me raise one worried eyebrow:
Robin Dunn wrote:
In addition to the lack of DnD support mentioned above the
RichTextCtrl still needs to add the ability to read/write standard
formats such as RTF or HTML, (currently it only uses a custom XML
format,) gain some performance improvements, and complete the wxPython
wrapper.
That's the "custom XML format" that gets me worried: since we're
planning to use that in email editing, we can't really send around
custom XML. How would that be displayed in other email clients? AFAIK,
RTF is the way to go for basic email fancy work (bkirsch, please confirm
or deny, I'm really not sure here...). Is there a method to convert back
and forth between this format and RTF?
Also, reflecting on Mimi's initial list, the only thing that I'm really
dearly missing right now in Chandler display of emails is the detection
of URLs: coloring them and making them clickable. That was not in your
list Mimi and I'd happily forgo all the rest for just that one feature...
Cheers,
- Philippe
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