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?
It's just a matter of implementing handler classes for the other
formats. The plan is to allow multiple read/write formats, and the
infrastructures is in place to do so, but all that is done so far is the
XML and it also looks like a HTML handler class has been done too since
I last checked. I don't know how complete it is though.
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...
If it can't already do that it probably wouldn't be too hard to add.
There are various container and content objects in use while the
document is in memory, and it looks like adding and using another type
should be straight forward.
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Robin Dunn
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