Hello all, Tuesday, January 14, 2003, Tim Musson wrote: 1>> is it possible to configure the bat to use an external text editor, 1>> (of course, except the copy&paste way...) ?
> Not in the current version, it is rumored to be a feature of the > elusive V2 though. this will be probably implemented in V1, as Stef told in TBBETA: > Message editor. > > We are currently developing a new mechanism of interaction with the > editor component so it will be possible to use different editors for > writing messages. The first one will be a Windows-compatible one > (RichEdit-based, RichEdit is the component used by Windows WordPad). > It won't be able to create HTML messages, but it will allow to use > proportional fonts for editing messages and creation messages in > languages the current editor hardly supports. > > Another editor is being developed for creation HTML messages (please > hold your boos, it is needed for marketing, anyway) - it is based on > the existing code of RTV, so there is no much code to be added and > of course, RTV bugs are the subject for removal. It produces a very > compact HTML code, so this is a plus, but I know many of people here > won't like it anyway. If somebody wants to write a Help article > about proper usage of HTML in e-mail, such effort will be very > welcomed. :-) > > As the editor stuff goes, there will be a plug-in interface > available for adding custom editors, even those ones that produce > some special (binary) output. -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat! 1.62h under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 AMD ThunderBird 1,2 GHz, 512 MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
