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A Simple Text Editor Question, What features should it have?

abgorn	8 Aug, 2008 - 04:48 AM Post #1
Hello Crap for Brains Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 881 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	A project I'm working on (since two days ago) is a simple text editor called NerdText (nText for short and it's like NotePad). So far it is super simple and I was wondering if there was any feature that you'd think a simple text editor should have. In the first release whuch I'm working on only has "New", "Open" and "Save" in it menu bar, but I plan to add fonts, colours, support for images, it's own file type (.ntxt). But before I start on those, I was wondering if there were any features that would make it better in some way. So what do you think it should have?
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Tom9729	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 06:35 AM Post #2
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,459 Thanked: 10 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	Are you trying to make an editor or a word processor?
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Xarver	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 06:45 AM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 6 Aug, 2008 Posts: 60 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	Well, if you save it has .txt or .ntxt or .pdf or .doc [pdf would be awesome] It would be cool if it had a spell check. Also If it was a .doc or .pdf or .ntxt it would have image support... Also if you could use different text fonts, sizes, and center text... etc. Those would be some neat features. ~ Xarver This post has been edited by Xarver: 8 Aug, 2008 - 06:46 AM
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abgorn	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 02:08 PM Post #4
Hello Crap for Brains Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 881 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	Well, it would be an text editor, but I want to add some things that make it slightly a word prossesor (like making text go to center, left or right and have .pdf conversion), but simple and light so it could be used often and without complications.
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Tom9729	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 03:00 PM Post #5
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,459 Thanked: 10 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	Editors are usually for programming. Word processors are usually for typing formatted documents. If you go with the word processor route, my advice is to make the app first and worry about fancy things like PDF support later. Having import/export filters as plugins wouldn't be a bad idea.
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abgorn	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 03:02 PM Post #6
Hello Crap for Brains Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 881 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 04:00 PM) Having import/export filters as plugins wouldn't be a bad idea. What do you mean?
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Tom9729	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 8 Aug, 2008 - 03:22 PM Post #7
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,459 Thanked: 10 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	QUOTE(abgorn @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 07:02 PM) QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 04:00 PM) Having import/export filters as plugins wouldn't be a bad idea. What do you mean? When you export a document it goes through a filter. The filter converts it from whatever your internal format is, to whatever the destination format is supposed to be. Same goes for importing, only it works in the opposite direction. Instead of hard-coding PDF support into the app, you could write it as a plugin. Want to add support for another format? Write a plugin. It would be a bit more work initially, but it would make adding support for new formats a snap.
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abgorn	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 9 Aug, 2008 - 12:58 AM Post #8
Hello Crap for Brains Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 881 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 04:22 PM) QUOTE(abgorn @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 07:02 PM) QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 8 Aug, 2008 - 04:00 PM) Having import/export filters as plugins wouldn't be a bad idea. What do you mean? When you export a document it goes through a filter. The filter converts it from whatever your internal format is, to whatever the destination format is supposed to be. Same goes for importing, only it works in the opposite direction. Instead of hard-coding PDF support into the app, you could write it as a plugin. Want to add support for another format? Write a plugin. It would be a bit more work initially, but it would make adding support for new formats a snap. Thanks for your help in that. That would be a good idea to put into the editor.
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Mommy	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 9 Aug, 2008 - 01:52 PM Post #9
D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Aug, 2008 Posts: 104 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	HTML reference or w/e it's called.
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red_4900	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 10 Aug, 2008 - 07:28 AM Post #10
Code Dreamers Joined: 22 Feb, 2008 Posts: 818 Thanked: 11 times My Contributions	features where I can type like in normal word processor and convert it to .tex file. I could use that. to cheat my assignment
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abgorn	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 10 Aug, 2008 - 08:19 AM Post #11
Hello Crap for Brains Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 881 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(red_4900 @ 10 Aug, 2008 - 08:28 AM) features where I can type like in normal word processor and convert it to .tex file. I could use that. to cheat my assignment Do you mean .txt?
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Tom9729	RE: A Simple Text Editor Question 10 Aug, 2008 - 10:17 AM Post #12
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,459 Thanked: 10 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	QUOTE(abgorn @ 10 Aug, 2008 - 12:19 PM) QUOTE(red_4900 @ 10 Aug, 2008 - 08:28 AM) features where I can type like in normal word processor and convert it to .tex file. I could use that. to cheat my assignment Do you mean .txt? No I think he means TeX. red_4900, there are a couple LaTeX gui's out there. One I use is LyX.
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