Text editor example

[utopiomania]

Here's a fairly complete (in my opinion) text editor which I use instead of Notepad and keep on a memory stick. It can
create shortcuts to itself, insert a file in a file, save a file to the end of another file, use Windows tools, Google your
selected text and so on..

It's a constantly changing thing which I wrote for my own use, and I post it as sample in case newbies to the PureBasic
language can use it to get some ideas

EDIT: There was a problem posting the source (1800 lines), so download it from the link in my post below.

[Joakim Christiansen]

sorry, skip this post

No, just upload the source somewhere and share it with us

[Bonne_den_kule]

You could had delete the whole thread before someone posted a reply

[Joakim Christiansen]

We wont let him get away!!

[SFSxOI]

Great! I needed something just like this yesterday. Can you post the code somewhere for download?

Thank You

[utopiomania]

Sorry for the mess , here it is: http://www.utopiomania.com/gate/onetext.zip

[Derek]

One small problem, if I run the program and select clipboard from the edit or tools menu then I can no longer use the items in these menus, like the date picker etc, also the program won't close.

If I press ctrl+v then I get a message pasted into the text saying can't find clipbrd.exe and the same problems continue, I have to kill the program from inside the ide.

[utopiomania]

I guess clipbrd.exe isn't installed on your system. Other than that, runProgram() just
ignores the command here if it can't find one of the tools?

If I change clipbrd.exe to for example clipbrd22.exe for the clipboard tool, the editor
just ignores the command without any problems, so I'm unshure of what I can do with this.

[Derek]

Yeah, it's a bit strange because all the usual cutting and pasteing still works.

[utopiomania]

Just uploaded an update. There seems to be a serious problem with the stream io
which I got from the forums, and I have a difficulty figuring out whats wrong with
it.

I imagine it is the reLoadSaveCallback() procedure and math when it loads chunks of
text, so I've replaced them with more down to earth code which is quite slower but
reliable.

[Rook Zimbabwe]

I use METAPAD at times:

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Metapad/metapad.html

And it is FREE...

Have also used:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/context.html

and

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/inedita.html

The last one has line numbering and text highlighting... Used it as a C++ Editizer for a while.

[utopiomania]

Forgot to say, I posted an update yesterday regarding the switch from stream io to more basic means of loading
and saving text. (fixed a stupid problem )

However, the stream io is still in the source but rem'd out for the moment. I would like to put it back because it's
much faster though, and it handles .rtf as well, so if some of you have some spare time time on your hands, take
a look at it and see if you can spot the problem with it.

I'll try to fix it myself and post the code, but sometimes I feel I become blind by staring at the same spot for too
long, so any help is appreciated!

[rsts]

Hi,

Just downloaded this and did a quick test. It looks great

Haven't had a chance to do an in-depth look yet, but I love what I see.

Will also take a look at the stream i/o, but since I use code from the forum, chances are, it shares the problem.

Once again, many thanks for posting.

cheers

[utopiomania]

Your'e welcome. Many thanks for testing! About the stream i/o, the problem could also
be me doing some typing errors when formatting it, so.. But it can be fixed

[Amundo]

Hi utopiomania,

This is neat, thanks for sharing your code.

(I've done my best to ignore Rook Zimbabwe's post).