Hi!
Nicolas is probably right that Typewriter is quite a central application
in any decent desktop environment, so I spent a few hours trying to fix
Typewriter. The changes I did were:
- Documents are now flagged as dirty when changed (!!!)
- Set Main menu name
- Added shortcuts for a few menu items
- Printing menu item
- Spellchecking menu items
- in OgreKit: improved the find panel
One thing I really need to day. The find panel that's provided by
OgreKit is really not too good. It looks a bit better now, but it still
has a couple of major features lacking compared to the find panel in
ProjectManager, which I used as reference. (PM's find panel is copied
out of a NeXTstep example application.)
A couple of issues are still pending, though. Some of them are hard for
me to solve alone. Please go through this list and see if you can find
the time to solve one of these issues. (To encourage the use of the bug
tracker in the Etoile workflow, I also took the time to paste them into
the bug tracker.)
- OgreKit is very slow doing the "replace all" operation. But the
approach I used to do it is quite naive. Maybe there's an optimized
possibility to do it. Yen-Ju?
- There are a couple of things in PM's find panel, which are worth
implementing:
- A label indicating whether the search succeeded or failed
(mediocre task)
- NSFindPboard support (I didn't know that either. ;-)) (easy
task)
- Just look at the source code and see what's usable...
- When resizing the Typewriter window so that the width decreases, text
doesn't get realigned automatically and the right half isn't visible
any more. (When you solve that, send me a notification, I have that
issue in Grrr as well.)
- Scale Jesse's text icon down and copy it over the icons in the
Resource
directory. (I only had ImageMagick to do that, the quality is low.)
- When a .txt file is opened, it would be nice if the font could be
automatically set to a monospaced font.
I'd also like to realign Typewriter's menu layout to match the TextEdit
layout. This makes it easier for me and Apple users to switch from
the NeXT/Apple TextEdit application. Is that okay with you, Yen-Ju?
-Guenther
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