TEXTEDIT, a (somehow) small multi-file text editor with UNICODE support

Started this because, at the time, I thought Notepad was crap and how hard can it be to write something better, like PFE (Programmers File Editor)? Well, after breaking my teeth in UNICODE, turned out that Notepad was not all that crappy and my kung-fu was weak.

So welcome to more crap :-))

Some random thoughts

Originally buit with OpenWatcom, moved it to the Pelle’s C compiler system
http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm

After working with Richedit, I can now fully understand why ppl go all the way and write their own custom edit controls.

After working with the comctl tab control, I can see why OOP is good =) After trying to find a way to resize parent+child windows flicker-free, I just want to be alone and cry :-)))

But I’m not all that good, anyway lol.

Hope you find something useful in this pile of text ( printing and unicode streaming comes to mind ), doesnt’t seem to have too many bugs (here’s hoping lol) and, for me at least, gets the job done.

And the usual disclaimer: this isn’t cutting edge, elegant, NSA grade code. Not even my grandpa-grade, if I come to think (he was a vet, God rest his soul, he couldn’t write code but he could make a cow sing). I don’t work as a full-time programmer (used to, 20 years ago) so I can very well afford to be incompetent :-)))

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Features

Uses Richedit v4.1 to open/edit/save text in ANSI and UNICODE (UTF8/16/32-LE/BE with/without BOM). You can use Richedit 3.0/2.0 if you want (undef HAVE_MSFTEDIT), but not 1.0 (does not support UNICODE). It works on win7, 8 and 10, should work on xp sp3 too. Please note that it does not use any features specific to latest Richedit versions (7.5 on W8 and 8.5 on W10).
Multiple file support (tabbed).
User Defined menus (custom apps)
Execute external programs in a separate thread, optionally capturing console output (you may use it as a crude IDE).
View current selection as HEX.
Parse source files for C function definitions/declarations in order to generate header files
Generate a synoptic (as comment) for the C function under cursor or on selection
Unfortunately, it supports drag-n-drop
Exciting, misterious and surprisingly powerful bugs which will crash your box =) These are 100% genuine and are all mine!

Building

open the workspace editor.ppw and you’ll have all three projects (textedit, spawn and texeditSH) which you can build all at once. You can also open the individual projects (.ppj) from each project folder.
spawn.exe is for executing external tools (masm, for example); texteditSH is a MS Explorer context menu shell extension to open files in TextEdit; the program works without either of these.
there is another completely optional “feature”, detour_selcolor.dll, which is a API hook dll for GetSysColor, so you can customize text selection (“highlight”) in a Richedit control. Starting with v2.0 and up, Richedit does not offer such a possibility anymore :-) so we must resort to such hackery :)). Basically, selection fore/back will be the same as the one from textedit.ini.
you can compile all projects as x64/x86, UNICODE/non UNICODE; please note: regardless of build type, the richedit control will be in UNICODE mode, to support the above mentioned file encodings
IMPORTANT: build both the app and the extension in the same way (both as UNICODE or ANSI, 32 or 64 bit), otherwise interesting things start to happen :-))