[bksvol-discuss] Re: Text Editor

I'm glad some people are ambitious.  I thought about trying that during my
breaf intense interest and class in VB, but never got arround to making a
program.  I know that the first problem I thought needed to be overcome is
the limit on the size of normal textboxes.  We don't need another Windows 9x
style notepad only with extra features. :-)
I don't know how to make page breaks visible in an editor, which is the
biggest problem for bookshare text files right now.  Do you know how to
solve that problem?
If you really do get somewhere in writing this program, please try to
include the following features.
Tabs, spaces, new line characters, and page breaks must all be visible to a
screen reader.
It should contain a spell check or directions for using a separate spell
checking application that can work within the program.
Search and replace function, preferably with the option of using wild card
characters.
Append to clipboard as well as the usual clipboard functions.
A feature to mark and manipulate a block of text.
the possibility of saving in TXT and RTF.

If there is already something out there that does these things with any
sized file I would like to test it.  The first item in my list is the thing
I believe we have the most trouble in finding.  Does note tab show all these
characters?  Tabs would be useful in programing, which it is made for, but
page breaks aren't that important.

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Text Editor


Hi folks,
    I've been sitting back and enjoying the discussion about page breaks and
the lack of easy to use alternatives to such things as notepad and wordpad
for text files.

    I've programmed in the past and seeing as computer science is my major
I'm looking into how difficult an easy to use simple text editor that works
with JAWS would be to develop.

    The main reason I wanted to send this out was so if there was anyone
considering the purchase of a program they might want to wait a few days.

    I will get back in a day or two when I've figured out a bit of the
details.

Jake Brownell

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