Chris Mellon wrote: > On 7/16/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> tool69 wrote: >> > Stef Mientki a écrit : >> > >> >> AFAIK, Scintilla is a code editor. >> >> What I need looks more like ms-word, >> >> handling lists, tables, images, formulas. >> >> >> >> thanks, >> >> Stef Mientki >> > >> > >> > So you'll need the RichTextCtrl >> > >> > http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl-class.html >> > >> > See a sample in the demo under "Recent Additions". >> >> Well it's better, >> - it has lists >> - it has images, but no image editing, >> It doesn't have >> - drag & drop >> - tables, >> - formula editing, >> - screen capture, >> - links >> - embedded code >> - CSS >> - .... >> so unfortunately it's not yet sufficient :-( >> > > This goes far beyond the requirement for a rich text editor. You're > now talking about rich object integration, which is about 80% of a > full featured word processor. The features I describe, are just 1% of the (in-)capabilities of ms-word, so what do you call ms-word ;-)
You won't find a cross platform > implementation that's suitable for use as a component in anything. > > Delphi components are tightly tied to the Delphi runtime environment > and its' gui abstractions, so embedding it as is is will be a massive > hack (and require extensive C code) if its even possible. The editor I've in mind communicates only through messages, about 20 to the editor and 5 back, so that doesn't sound too much. > > However, any company who writes such a full featured control is likely > to package it as an ActiveX control so they can get the sales from the > VB guys, and you can embed ActiveX control in wxPython applications > (Windows only, of course). Very good idea, although I've never done it, according to the decriptions, it should be just one press on a button to create an ActiveX of the Editor-component. thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
