Building a text editor is fun. It's the ultimate scratch your own itch project.
I remember building one back in the day (2002) with Visual Basic 6.
Unfortunately I lost the source code but I still have the website's code. Feature wise it had syntax highlighting, column selection, project wide find / replace, file edit history (timeline), multiple clipboards, splits and more.
Does anyone remember what that really good text editor control was in VB6? It did most of the heavy lifting. It wasn't a built-in control.
That sounds like CodeMax, or its descendent CodeSense.
CodeMax was originally a product by Barry Allyn (WinMain software) and it was pretty good.
Unfortunately though for him the market was pretty small and it was difficult to survive as a commercial product. It was open source for a short while and that was when CodeSense came about.
Nope, it was a third party control. I believe it was originally written in C but someone wrapped a VB6 control around it.
It was something you could drop into your app and it had an API for all sorts of nice features. It was one of the best controls at the time for creating a text editor.
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Building a text editor is fun. It's the ultimate scratch your own itch project.
I remember building one back in the day (2002) with Visual Basic 6.
Unfortunately I lost the source code but I still have the website's code. Feature wise it had syntax highlighting, column selection, project wide find / replace, file edit history (timeline), multiple clipboards, splits and more.
Does anyone remember what that really good text editor control was in VB6? It did most of the heavy lifting. It wasn't a built-in control.
That sounds like CodeMax, or its descendent CodeSense.
CodeMax was originally a product by Barry Allyn (WinMain software) and it was pretty good.
Unfortunately though for him the market was pretty small and it was difficult to survive as a commercial product. It was open source for a short while and that was when CodeSense came about.
Hmm, it definitely wasn't CodeMax but CodeSense rings a bell, but I'm only about 10% sure it was CodeSense.
I think I would immediately know the name if it were mentioned. It was much faster and better than anything at the time when it came out.
Rich text box?
Nope, it was a third party control. I believe it was originally written in C but someone wrapped a VB6 control around it.
It was something you could drop into your app and it had an API for all sorts of nice features. It was one of the best controls at the time for creating a text editor.