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wxRichTextEditor available!

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Julian posted this on the wx-dev mailinglist, I wanted to share it! If you download the exec you will be very impressed by it! Finally a rich text edit control for wxWidgets! Please remember this code is in BETA and will not be available in the current wx2.6.2 release.

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Hi,

A zip file with source and Windows executable is here:

http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/richtextctrl.zip

The executable can be run directly from:

http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/richeditor.exe

Please see readme.txt and todo.txt for explanation and
status. Sorry I've only compiled this for Windows as
yet. There's no API documentation, but it should be clear
from richtextctrl.h what the new provisional API is.
Suggestions welcome for improvements. I haven't addressed
an implementation-independent way to iterate through
content yet, for retrieving individual text chunks and images
from the content. However I think the set of BeginXXX()...EndXXX()
convenience functions for adding styling is nice and concise
(see demo source).

If people think this looks promising, the next stage is to
decide where to host it: wxCode or wxWidgets CVS?

Pros for wxWidgets:

- can be used within wxWidgets e.g. for replacing implementations
of wxTextCtrl that don't support word wrap. [Currently wxRichTextCtrl
only supports multiline text but it shouldn't be hard to add single-line
support with horizontal 'scrolling']
- will potentially get more testing on multiple platforms
- we don't have to write separate bakefile stuff
- this functionality is on the wishlist for 2.7

Pros for wxCode:

- can stabilize outside of main tree
- wider range of contributors without resorting to patches
- can be used separately with older versions of wxWidgets than 2.7

Anyway, I look forward to hearing feedback. My response on wx-dev may be
a bit intermittent while I catch up on other work.

Thanks,

Julian


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Re: wxRichTextEditor available!

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Jorg wrote:Julian posted this on the wx-dev mailinglist, I wanted to share it! If you download the exec you will be very impressed by it! Finally a rich text edit control for wxWidgets!
I guess that the fact that Julian did not forwarded it to wx-users means that it was more for wx-devs and should be considered alpha version for kind of early internal review. While forwarding it here brings nice news, it can also reasult in lots of unneded discussions regarding things which were mentioned several times in wx-dev mailing list. So just my two cents: anyone who wants to follow reviewing, bugtesting and extending this new cool control please use wx-dev mailing list to avoid overloading Julian and other designers with jumping between different communities. Thanks in advance!

wx-dev is also available through gmane, see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib. ... evel/66848

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You are right ABX, I made a note in the original post that this is in beta stage, so people do not expect to be added somewhere in the very near future ;-)

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It is in the cvs HEAD.

I am already integrating it into wxDevCpp, so that when wxWidgets 2.7 is released, it will already be supported.
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