Re: What is TRichEdit control?

Josef Lowder said:
>
> What is the "TRichEdit control" -- an acquaintence has said to me that
> Linux is "primitive" because it does not have this, which he says is
> "the heart of every Windows application."
>
> Just curious.

Caveat: Until just now, I did not know what a TRichEdit control was,
though I had an idea which turned out to be mostly correct. All of the
spew that follows is based on brief purusal of a few of the google search
hits on "trichedit control" and "trichedit control linux" and my previous
experience programming MS Windows based apps.

The TRichEdit control is evidently part of the programming libraries in
Borland's Delphi (Pascal). It derives it's functionality from the Rich
Text Editor DLL found in Windows. Several places point to the fact that
there is not a direct replacement for this DLL in Linux. In fact, the
Linux version of Delphi made for Linux (Kylix) does not have the TRichEdit
control because the DLL on which it is based is an MS creation only
availble in Windows.

The Rich Text Editor is, in fact, a very useful tool for applications that
need a "built-in" editor, per se. But calling Linux primitive because it
does not have a direct replacement for that particular control is like
saying my whole house is primitive because I don't have a fully integrated
home theater system. Just as I can get most of the functionaliy of an
integrated theater system from parts and pieces that I put together, Linux
can provide the same user experience as the Rich Text Editor by using
other methods.

The guy must do lots of apps that use the TRichEdit control, and since it
makes his life easier, rejects the whole rest of the Linux environment for
lack of one tool. Pretty narrow view, I think. But, to each his own...

Alan



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