amiga-mui / texteditor

A well-known and used MUI custom class (TextEditor.mcc) which provides application programmers a textedit gadget. It supports features like word wrapping, soft styles (bold, italic, underline), a spell checking interface as well as an AREXX interface for scripting.

TextEditor.mcc

TextEditor.mcc is a multiline string gadget for Amiga systems which offers most of the common features you can find in a typical text editor, but embedded in a MUI custom class. It is used by a wide range of well-known MUI based applications like YAM or SimpleMail as the main text editing gadget.

TextEditor.mcc is available for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS.

Features

Its main features are:

• Text can be colored (limited syntax highlighting)
• WYSIWYG for bold, italic and underline soft styles
• Multi-level undo & redo
• Lines with different alignments (left, right, centered)
• Ability to insert thick or thin separators with an optional title
• Easy marking either using the mouse or keyboard
• Full clipboard support, offering very fast cut & paste routines
• Light text highlighting for e-mail based on an opening ">" character
• Support for external spellcheckers, including type'n'spell and word guessing
• Configurable keys, colors, cursor types, blink speed, and much more
• Ability to have a bitmap as a background
• Support for proportional fonts with floating word wrap, as well as antialiased fonts
• Pixel smooth scrolling
• Possibility to attach a horizontal- and vertical scroll bar
• AREXX interface for scripted programming

Downloads/Releases

All releases up to the most current ones can be downloaded from our central releases management.

Bug Reports / Enhancement Requests

To report bugs use the bug/issue tracker.

Manual Installation

1. Extract the archive to a temporary directory.

   > cd RAM:
   > lha x MCC_TextEditor.lha
   

2. Go to the MCC_TextEditor/Libs/MUI/<OS> directory where <OS> is the directory matching the operating system you want to install TexiEditor.mcc for:

   > cd MCC_TextEditor/Libs/MUI/AmigaOS4
   

3. copy all #?.mcc and #?.mcp files found in that <OS> directory to the global MUI:Libs/mui/ directory on your system partition:

   > copy #?.mcc MUI:Libs/mui/
   > copy #?.mcp MUI:Libs/mui/
   

4. reboot and enjoy the new version ;)

License / Copyright

TextEditor.mcc was originally written in 1997 and is Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by Allan Odgaard. As of version 15.10, released in April 2005, the gadget is maintained and Copyright (C) 2005-2021 TextEditor.mcc Open Source Team.

TextEditor is distributed and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1. See COPYING for more detailed information.

Authors

• Allan Odgaard
• Alper Sönmez
• Gianfranco Gignina
• Ilkka Lehtoranta
• Jens Maus
• Nicolas Rybkin
• Sebastian Bauer
• Thore Böckelmann