Last Friday, Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone written a humble text editor with abilities which >rival those of Note Pad or TextEdit? Are you willing to part >with a copy?
How humble are you willing to go? I have implemented a "Note Pad" as a feature of my puzzles package. It offers the user of the puzzles a single field in which to park blocks of text that are perhaps copied to the clipboard from the record of steps performed on a puzzle, or to write notes for later reference. I have implemented the standard keystroke equivalents for copy, paste, and select all. I have not implemented such other basics as creating new text documents or saving separate text files. (When the user saves the entire puzzle, their note pad gets saved. I have a print utility which allows for printing from this field, but this utility is more broadly defined.) I have found that MetaCard makes it very easy to script for this sort of thing, and it ought to be easy to add the features of a basic text editor. The commandkeyDown message allows one to create a way of meeting the user's expectations for keystroke equivalents of Edit menu commands even if one does not want to have a standard menu. If the limited start I have described would be of any use, contact me off list and I can send you a copy of one of my puzzle stacks. John Kiltinen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Kiltinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home Office Professor, Dept. of Math. & CS Tel.(906) 228-8035 or (906) 227-1600 Northern Michigan University Fax (906) 228-4667 or (906) 2272010 Marquette, MI 49855 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
