Re: [DotGNU]System.Windows.Forms Coding Competition

[Carl-Adam Brengesjo]

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Norbert Bollow wrote:
| Carl-Adam Brengesjo <address@hidden> wrote:
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|>>And RichTextBox needs to be implemented at some point -- it would also
|>>be nice to get RTB working before another certain (name omitted)
|>>CLI/.NET project does ;)
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| Would you be able to specify a useful, but not overly ambitious,
| subset of RTB functionality that we could suggest as a first goal?
| (It's good to have challenging goals, but they still need to be
| realistic or there will not be any useful results at all.)

Well, some basic formatting should be expected, imho.  Such as marking a
some text with a certain color.  IIRC, there's already base classes for
building a tree with text and formatting styles in TextBoxBase. But I
have no idea how useful it actually is, as I've never looked into them.

Personally, I just want the RTB for chatwindows, to mark certain lines
with a specific color depending on the type of message, etc. You get the
~ idea. And I know that many C# networking apps and stuff uses RTB for
the same reason, including _Simon's Jabber client, IIRC.
So, by defining the purpose of RTB in my, and others', apps, I think
most ppl can figure out what functionality is expected.  And features
like exporting to a '.rtf' file is thus not what I use, or honestly
doesn't really care if it's implemented.


Regards, C-A B.
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