Re: RichView Package 1.8

From: Julian Ziersch (news_at_wptools.de)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:33:45 +0100

Hi,

>The source of my knowledge about WPTools is only your exe-demo and the web
>site.
>I know you read this newsgroup and you can correct me if I posted some wrong
>information about WPTools features. I did not intend to be agressive, as you
>can see I listed not only advantages of TRichView over WPTools but also vice
>versa. But I want to say thanks for all my supporters :)
>Besides, I supposed that it would be an entertaining reading.

Thanks for your post. I only know a few of your exe demos as well - I
usually don't compare since I find that distracting.

>Unfortunately, you demo does not allow me to test WPTools' bidirected and
>Unicode features. It looks like they are disabled in it. At least when
>pasting Unicode symbols from MS Word or from TRichView, your demo inserts
>??? or nothing, and selection does not work well in arabic text.

Only the latest exe demo is up to date
(www.wpcubed.com/ftp/wpdemo.zip)

The unicode support has to be enabled in the File menu under Options.
It is disabled by standard.

The right-to-left support this demo is set to 'dumb' - it will turn
the complete text except for number, not only the hebrew or arabic
charsets which would be the automatic mode. It is just a demo.

>As for my compiled demos, bidirected features (including mixed RTL and LTR
>text) can be tested in ...
Looks ok to me.

>Your site states that WPtools Unicode support requires WinNT. Hmm....
>Does it mean that Unicode documents will contain ???? when editing under
>Win95-98-ME?
WPTools uses the standard TextOutW function here - So I expect it
depens on the character.

>About MS Word-like selection. If some users do not like the current style
>of selection in TRichView, there is an option to make it more MS Word-like
>(TRVStyle.SelectionStyle, screenshot is in the help file). Besides,
>TRichView supports line-selection and smart word-selection with mouse (I
>cannot see these features in WPTools demo).
A big amount of time went into the handling of the cursor movement,
selection and shortcuts - since I don't think Words word selection is
'smart' it is not supported (I hate Word for it). But doubleclick to
select word + space works (I don't see this in your demo :-)

>I do not thinks that it's necessary to comment all the listed features. Some
>of them are supported by TRichView directly, some of them via alternative
>features, some are unsupported yet.

Well - I did not state that these are all unique features and it is
also not necessary that they are. It is good for you that your
customers support you so well. Congratulations!

Julian Ziersch

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