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Philippe Bossut wrote:
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?
Yes, RTF or HTML are the standard formats. For Chandler, I would prefer
to leverage the HTML format ala Thunderbird. For all rich text messages
(HTML / RTF) I will also send an alternate part that contains a plain
text version for legacy clients.
-Brian
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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