XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 3/28/2024 2:58 PM, Newyana2 wrote:   
   > "Paul"  wrote   
   >   
   > | The source code for Windows XP was stolen.   
   > | That means, somewhere, there's a copy of Wordpad source for WinXP.   
   > |   
   >   
   >   In VBClassic and probably in .Net there are simple wrapper   
   > controls for the MS RichEdit library. It's actually not a big deal   
   > to create a Wordpad type of program. But does anyone use   
   > it anymore? I used to use it for help files and such where I   
   > wanted formatting, but HTML is more flexible and looks nicer.   
   > There's something about the display of bold text in RTF that   
   > always looked clunky to me.   
   >   
   >   
      
   As it's source code, you have "the materials for a good time".   
      
   Who can say how easy it is to use, that stuff. Me just getting   
   some version of Visual Studio home edition to work, is hard enough   
   right now. Let alone actually edit some source.   
      
      Paul   
      
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