Thanks for both of the links! I think Notepad++ is more in line with my
intentions but I really was looking to embed a text editor within a
larger app. As a short term solution, I'm going to look at using
Notepad++ but its source component - Scintilla - looks interesting,
too.
In any event, thanks for your advice!
Jay Parzych wrote:
> NotePad ++
>
> http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
>
>
> > I've looked online for a while but haven't found a whole lot of really
> > good resources for this, so I'm hoping that maybe someone here can
> > point me in the right direction. I'm working with a 3rd party
> > application that allows users to create customizable files within
> > certain syntax rules. There isn't, however, a good editor for these
> > files (users end up using Notepad, I guess) and I would like to create
> > one...most likely using Visual Studio. I considered just adding syntax
> > highlighting thru an existing text editor but I would like my final
> > app to have additional functionality and I'm not sure that I could
> > bundle the customized text editor with the other features that I wish
> > to incorporate. I'm already familiar with C# specifically and the .NET
> > Framework in general, so I'm looking at Microsoft's tool suite as a
> > starting point.
> >
> > Does anyone have any insights to share? Any ideas on where I might
> > read more about this sort of thing? Am I recreating the wheel here?
> > Any and all constructive suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks for your time!
> >
> > p.s. - I already posted this question in another .NET group here but
> > I'm reposting here since it appears the other forum appears to be
> > overloaded with spam. Sorry for the double-posting.
> >
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