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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #45 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 05:50 AM (UTC)
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That person was me. :) See http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=9089 for the topic I started.

I kind of stopped working on it due to lack of interest and the fact I am still waiting for a new version of MUSHclient with a callback I can use when the content of the textbox changes (since I started it out as wanting a live preview of what I am typing).

Anyhow, if you are interested, I could go back on fleshing some of the last problems with it out.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #46 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:04 AM (UTC)
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Ah yes, I tried to find that thread but my keyword search failed. :(

Anyway, it looked good:

I am such a pessimist when it comes to coding, I keep thinking of things that might go wrong. For example, if there was a callback when you changed the input box, and that callback changed the input box, then you get an infinite loop. However there would be ways around that.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #47 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:06 AM (UTC)
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Actually, "behaviour" looks spelt right to me, but you probably had the US dictionary. ;)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #48 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 07:33 AM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 28 Jan 2009 07:38 AM (UTC) by Worstje

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Yeah, I see the potential problems. But similar issues have been dealt with in the past for similar issues, like the deleting of a trigger/alias while in the execution of said thing. So that didn't seem like too much of a stretch.

Anyhow, if you are going back to work on some features, I recall another thing I hoped you'd implement was an ability to position the caret / place a selection in code. (I wanted to make Alt+<number> select the <number>th misspelled word for direct replacement.)

Edit: And yeah, English/American/Australian spelling bugs me. I am from none of those countries, but have friends in each of them I converse a lot with. So I tend to mingle the different spellings by mere influence.
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #49 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 07:54 AM (UTC)
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Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.



(btw, spelt is a type of wheat. spelled is the past tense of spell ;))
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #50 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 08:22 AM (UTC)
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Awesome. :)

Let's stop derailing the topic, though.
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Posted by Aryzu   (12 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #51 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 04:04 PM (UTC)
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I think the standard way to do it would be to handle the hole thing in the text control: Underline misspelt words on the fly and supply a context menu to supply corrections of the individual words. I think its very unusual to show an extra window representing the text you are typing with some extra styles.

I don't know which controls you are using, probaply it isn't possible to style text in the current conrol. But simulating such a cotrol as an extra window shouldn't be an option.
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #52 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 04:52 PM (UTC)
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This is the closest thing I can do currently. I believe the fact the RichEdit control has quite a bit of history incompatibility-wise is the reason it isn't being used as input control. I know that I tend to dislike the RichEdit control as it is used for input in several programs, mostly because of small details that involve margins, styles remaining upon pasting and all those details that just bug me (given the fact they're side effects of the control and have no use in the program itself.) A simple text control is simple, to the point, and it works wonderfully.

In a similar line of thinking, one should not forget MUSHclient still supports Windows 95, and I believe a fair number of users still like to use the client on such old systems. Any version of the RichEdit control used should still work with the oldest supported OS, too.
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Posted by Aryzu   (12 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #53 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 09:23 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 28 Jan 2009 09:25 PM (UTC) by Aryzu

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This is the closest thing I can do currently.


Yeah I know and it is great, I never thought about implementing something like that with the current possibilities.

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I tend to dislike the RichEdit control mostly because of small details that involve margins, styles remaining upon pasting and all those details that just bug me


I really know what you mean and I hate it, too. It is completely cumbersome to copy text from the browser and to get a completely messed up text.

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MUSHclient still supports Windows 95

Yeah a RichText control would probably break this compatibility, which would then be out of question. But perhaps it is possible to get the position of text in the standard controls and then draw on its canvas. I don't know it that is possible with your GUI-Toolkit.
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Posted by WizardsEye   (24 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #54 on Wed 18 Feb 2009 11:55 AM (UTC)
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Separate chat window. So many times I'm walking around the mud and miss some chat info because it happened while I was walking. If we could separate the various chats into a different window, We could easily see what we may have missed. Possible option is to split window the chat from the rest.
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #55 on Wed 18 Feb 2009 01:13 PM (UTC)
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Can already be scripted, either with miniwindows or easier, with normal dummy world windows. Take a search around the forums - it should not be too hard to do.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #56 on Wed 18 Feb 2009 06:45 PM (UTC)
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See: http://mushclient.com/faq point 23.

However I have at the back of my mind a more sophisticated version using miniwindows.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by WizardsEye   (24 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #57 on Fri 20 Feb 2009 07:06 PM (UTC)
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I'd like to see Tabbed Notepad. It seems I've got several of them up for various different reasons and instead of minimizing one andpulling up another, It would be nice just to hit a different tab on the side
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #58 on Sat 21 Feb 2009 01:29 AM (UTC)
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Have you tried going into File -> Global Preferences -> General and changing Window Tabs to Top or Bottom? That way you can see all your notepad windows.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by WizardsEye   (24 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #59 on Sat 21 Feb 2009 04:10 AM (UTC)
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I've tried that, But I don't see any difference. I don't see it putting any tabs anywhere. I still have to minimize them one at a time and pull up the right one.
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