Plain text editor

[elegem]

I'm looking to write a very very simple text editing program. Its merely an editable textbox(no rich text) and a menu with open/save/exit.Something like a stripped down notepad. Is there any code someone is willing to share to help get me started?

[hutch--]

 :bg

Yes, its in the MASM32 TOOLS directory, its called "tview" and builds at a disk hogging 3072 bytes.

[elegem]

:bg

Yes, its in the MASM32 TOOLS directory, its called "tview" and builds at a disk hogging 3072 bytes.

Didn't see that one...its a good start...it only shows an editable text box, but not how to save such a file. Do you have an example of how to open and save a standard ANSI text file?

Thnx for the speedy response. :bg

[dedndave]

Hutch wrote qeditor - a good guy to talk to
maybe he would give up the source

[elegem]

Hutch wrote qeditor - a good guy to talk to
maybe he would give up the source

lol...
I don't need anything that complicated, :dazzled:
I'm looking for a simple text editor that I can work off of...does nothing exist? :boohoo:

[hutch--]

 :bg

Try looking in the MASM32 example code, there is a complete text editor there that you can striip down to do what you need.

HINT: Example05\riched

[elegem]

:bg

Try looking in the MASM32 example code, there is a complete text editor there that you can striip down to do what you need.

HINT: Example05\riched

Ahah...that's what I needed. Thanks a bunch. :cheekygreen: :clap:

[jj2007]

If you are not scared of wasting a whopping 6k of disk space, try TinyRTF. Source is included - extract all, then launch tiny_rtf.exe

[Vortex]

Iczelion's Win32 Assembly tutorial set :

Tutorial 33: RichEdit Control: Basics

Tutorial 34: RichEdit Control: More Text Operations

Tutorial 35: RichEdit Control: Syntax Hilighting

[elegem]

Both tiny_ide and your links to the tutorial are quite helpful. But is there something like tiny rtf editor (but simpler) for plain ansi encoded text files?

The tutorials are great! (The index seems broken though)=(

[jj2007]

But is there something like tiny rtf editor (but simpler) for plain ansi encoded text files?

You can use tiny_rtf.ex for plain text *.asm files. Just avoid using the bold, red etc buttons, or disable them in TinyDemo.rtf...

[vanjast]

... its called "tview" and builds at a disk hogging 3072 bytes.

Damm.. more bloatware... :P

[elegem]

But is there something like tiny rtf editor (but simpler) for plain ansi encoded text files?

You can use tiny_rtf.ex for plain text *.asm files. Just avoid using the bold, red etc buttons, or disable them in TinyDemo.rtf...

Ye...that's what I'm using right now...but I'm a newbie to assembly.=P

[FORTRANS]

... its called "tview" and builds at a disk hogging 3072 bytes.

Damm.. more bloatware... :P

   For jollies, I looked for EDLIN.EXE on this XP system.


Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32

08/29/2002  07:00 AM            12,642 edlin.exe
               1 File(s)         12,642 bytes

C:\WINDOWS>help edlin
This command is not supported by the help utility.  Try "x /?".

C:\WINDOWS>edlin /?
Starts Edlin, a line-oriented text editor.

EDLIN [drive:][path]filename [/B]

  /B   Ignores end-of-file (CTRL+Z) characters.

   Makes one wonder if it is still in Windows 7?  Maybe they will
update the help facility by that point.

Cheers,

Steve N.

[elegem]

I found something pretty close to what I'm looking for at http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut12.html
Well actually...both 12 and 33 are fine.
My concern now is that they are rather inefficient when opening a file. According to task manager, memmory usage starts at about 1.6megabytes, but when I open a 5 kb text file, it goes up to 10megabytes...is there some way to make it more efficient?