kPad (lightweight text editor)

[anon]

Brief Overview

kPad, a lightweight text editor loosely based on the MTPad sample from the Microsoft SDK (12/1/99) allows you to read and manipulate RTF and TXT files using a RichEdit control. However, kPad's main focus is as an example of what you can do using the WTL.

Features

• Sheets control
• Find and Replace custom dialogues
• Small size

Implementation

• This project was created with the help ATL\WTL AppWizard as a "Multiple Threads SDI" application with a generic view window.
• The class SheetsCtrl is view window for the MainFrame and a container for the SheetView child windows.
• SheetView is a superclass of the RichEdit control
• The small size of 105 kilobytes is achieved due to the WTL's non-usage of the CRT library (_ATL_MIN_CRT) and use the project options /OPT:REF, /OPT:ICF, /OPT:NOWIN98.

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A really small rich text editor with lots of functions. It can open RTF and TXT files, and is really portable as an EXE that's just 100KB in size.

[vDD+wR]

as i wrote to you already, its a very good alternative to commercial programs and comes pretty handy if you youre working on a "clean" PC/laptop without MS Office or others but dont want to miss various functions of it!

[anon]

Yes, it's a lot more lighter than Microsoft Office. If it supported .doc files, I'd use it instead of Word

[vDD+wR]

If it supported .doc files, I'd use it instead of Word

yeah that function would be really great! googled it too, if some add-in or add-on (is this the same???) is existing, but without any success...

[anon]

add-in or add-on (is this the same???)

Hey, now you say it, I wonder the same too...
Add-"in" sounds more like modifying a program's code to open other stuff too, etc. to me, while add-"on", like making a new layer of code sit on top the other one to achieve this.
But they're basically the same

I did some search too but the most I could find was KPAD, the Windows Mobile app... So I'll have to keep on using Word viewer to view .doc's and a sandboxed portable MS Office to create and edit them, like I do now.

[shoulder]

Add-In - Plugin, very small update with a few more options.

Add-On - An expansion, bigger update, mostly updates the version number.

But I'm not sure, just a guess.

[anon]

Wikipedia says add-in and add-on are synonyms ("a plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon, or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a host application -a web browser or an email client, for example- to provide a certain, usually very specific, function"), but defines the latter separately as "optional computer hardware or software modules that supplement or enhance the original unit they are adding on to"!