Version 1.4 is now available for download! It's the best version yet.

Major Changes

* Added more buttons to toolbar
* Added edit options
* Focus is given to the edit on startup

Download here:
http://mercuria.no-ip.org/dragonproductions

Nice althought you should make the window resizable

Very cool

and also, thats exactly the type of thing I would like to create when I get better with win32

That would be very easy to implement. However, as I was making the program I left it out. :)

Oops! There is a small bug in the program. When you open or save a file, the save/open box both have "Save" as the box caption. The fixed version should be ready by tomorrow at the latest.

Version 1.1 is available for download now. :)

i am not an expieranced c++ person, but can somebody direct me in the way of text editors or gamemakers stuff? i mean where do you people learn this?

Win32 programming in C/C++ is different from standard C/C++ programming. You can find tutorials and stuff if you search around on Google (for "Win32 programming in C++", etc.). I will also recommend theForger's Win32 tutorials, which are very good (http://winprog.org/tutorial).

i know win32, in fact i know a good bit of it

if you could could i plz have thesrc code for this basic text editor

Yes, I will PM you with the source by tomorrow (I can't right now because I'm not on my computer).

However, the source isn't very commented because I didn't intend to release the source along with it.

Also, what compiler do you use?

VC++ .net Standard 2003, and thank you so much kind sir, and its ok if it isnt commented THANK YOU :o :o

I'll try to get it commented (it's not that hard, I just didn't feel like it. :D). Because I don't use the same compiler as you, I don't know if everything will work correctly. I'll give you the source for the three files in the project (main.c, main.h, and resource.rc) and you can copy and paste them into files on your computer. Then add the files to a project and compile as GUI. It should work out, though.

ok, cool thx, thank you

ummm have you finished, commenting it?

Don't worry, it'll be ready...soon. :D

Okay, v1.2 is now ready for download.

nice, keep up the good work, try making a Microsoft word/notepad mix, it would be sweet

These are my plans:

To do list

* Multi-file interface
* Re-sizing the window
* Edit options (font, find, etc.)
* Settings

I might come up with more things, but those are the main ones.

very cool dragon, hope you can make those new features work well because they sound really helpful. Nice work, you get the Candymans approval B) :lol:

I already have v1.3 ready. I just haven't uploaded it yet. :)

I added a tool bar. It's the same tool bar found in theForger's API tutorials. I didn't feel I had to change anything. :)

<chants> upload, upload, upload! :D

I decided to wait a little longer. :)

The reason is that I didn't want to release a version with just one update. I'll add the window re-sizing ability and then upload it. Because that will be easy to do, I'll probably have it done later today. :)

Okay, I just uploaded v1.3! Check the first post for the major changes.

Now that's a reality!

Updated To Do List

1. Edit options
2. Settings
3. Multi-file interface

The items above are listed in order or priority (1. - Highest, 2. - Lowest).

Version 1.4 is available for download. The next version might take a little longer to be released, but this isn't certain.

To Do List

* Change font
* Back-up copies
* Multi-document interface

heres a challenge (i think =\) in MSWord, if your comp crashes, u can get it recovered, could u do that maybe?

you could just write to a document called rescue.dat sporodically and delete it when the program closes. Then check for it when your program starts up.

I'm not sure how Microsoft Word does it, but there are lots of ways to do that. The easiest, I think, would be to create backups of files in another directory. This way the user will be able to select from the backups and open it.

I think this would be the best way Dragon:
Shadow of the Moon wrote:

I might add it when I decide to work on the program again.

My current project is BCCCT, which you can find in the works in progress forum. It's a program that generates a batch file which will compile your source(s) with the Borland C++ command-line compiler.

I'm planning on releasing a new version of Dragon Text Editor sometime soon.

New Features

• Save settings
• Flat toolbar

Thanks to Jossh for telling me how to create flat toolbars.

Sweet, cant wait :D

I haven't looked at the text editor yet, but you have a nice site. And your encryptor is cool too (except maybe for the .ico :)

Thanks. :D

My current projects: (listed in order of priority)

1. IDE for the Borland C++ Compiler
2. Gladiator (game)
3. Dragon Text Editor

Hey, I realise this post is pretty much dead but I've decided to resurrect due to the urgency of my situation. :wacko: I have a big final year project due in college and I'm kind of screwed. Basically it's a C++ editor much like yours Dragon (well at least what I'm aspiring towards), which implements voice recognition for keywords in C++ and outputs them e.g saying while will output a while loop.....anyway my problem is with the editor. We've the buttons but aren't sure how to make them work e.g open file, save file, etc. :unsure: (sidenote:if this was java it would be easy).
I went to the site you mentioned http://winprog.org/tutorial/ but it's in C and I think the two languages clash e.g OPENFILENAME doesn't appear to be recognized. Can you give me an idea of what I should do?!

Thanks :D

Get platform sdk and try fishing for some functons.OPENFILENAME i think it's
GetOpenFileName it's declared in Commdlg.h, included in Windows.h.

I entered the struct for OPENFILENAME even though I had already referenced <windows.h> so that's no longer giving an error but now it's not recognising any of these commands OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT which is for the save function.

I'm also getting another error I can't fix, which is:

error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'void *' to 'char *'
Conversion from 'void*' to pointer to non-'void' requires an explicit cast

It's in relatiopn to this line: pszFileText = GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);
pszFileText is declared as: LPCTSTR pszFileName
dwFileSize is declared as: DWORD dwFileSize

:unsure:

This is because the function 'GlobalAlloc()' is returning an object of 'void*'. Which you are trying to assign to an object that has a type of 'char*'. What you need to do is cast result of 'GlobalAlloc()' to the correct type.

In C:

In C++:

Thanks for that it fixed at least one of my errors. :)