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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 3877 Location: Pittsburgh

How do you measure the goodness? Size/speed or the need or how easy is to provide the functionality otherwise? An AHK script is useful, which charts the temperature changes or stock prices, mortgage rates, interest changes or just the CPU load or memory consumption. A pie chart or a grid control is also helpful to present information collected by an AHK script or let the user select data in a more convenient way. These I would use often if they were included in AHK, but I still don't know many applications, which could be much better with a sophisticated edit control, instead of firing up WordPad, for an occasional longer text entry. I used WordPad to show longer pieces of text in Unicode. With a few lines of AHK script you can scroll it conveniently and close it when its work is done. To draw a professional looking chart hundreds of AHK commands are needed.

You can argue that these controls are larger, but they can also be simplified if ever they get into AHK. They are also better in a library, not affecting the scripts, which don't use it.

Elevator_Hazard · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Illinois

I like HiEdit, of course if I try using it in my own script I will fail terribly like with most DLL's I try and implement in autohotkey... Which is why I think this should be added to autohotkey. And it's just really cool Very Happy

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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 3877 Location: Pittsburgh

Icfu · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Rheinland

goodness = features * speed^2 / size

There is one hobby that all AHK users have in common:
They like typing.

Icfu
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atnbueno · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

Other, but meaning "no". Not because I like the current Edit control, but because in my (personal, modest, restricted, basic) use of AHK I've never needed anything closer to a RichEdit control.
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majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3544 Location: Belgrade

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1715

I voted other... let me explain why.
as we had the basic listbox and then got the feature rich listview with lot of possibilities, i'd rather get a feature loaded RichEdit after the basic Edit control in place of something that's low on the feature count (i'm comparing its current state to a normal richedit control).
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corrupt · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 2328

I wouldn't object to an extra 50k (negligible drop in the bucket) but I'd prefer a standard RichEdit to be built-in.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10450

I wouldn't mind seeing a side-by-side comparison of HiEdit vs. RichEdit features. I was tentatively planning to build in RichEdit someday.

PhiLho · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

The poll is biased... I still voted No, although I am not happy with Edit (which is OK in 99% GUIs anyway).
I am not sure about this control. It is great to have lot of capability in such a small control, but beside the small size and perhaps speed, why choose it instead of some other like Scintilla? I don't propose to include Scintilla in AHK! It is too big, and doesn't has enough general usefulness. It is perfect, and so is HiEdit, in their respective uses, as an external DLL: very little scripts will use them anyway, so it isn't worth embedding them.
Somehow, so is TreeView, but at least it is a standard Windows control, and only the wrapper counts to the size of AHK. Same for RichEdit.
PCRE has been integrated, but a significant part of the scripts are using it now.

Now, if HiEdit author wants to create a grid control, which has been asked many times in this forum, I would vote Yes...
And no, that's not the same thing as ListView.

Anyway, I will take a closer look at this control, it seems interesting.
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SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5298

Dear majkinetor, Smile

Many thanks for finding this DLL for and wrapping it up nicely.
It will be very useful for me. Offlate you have been concentrating more on AHK ( than the others ), I guess.
Keep up the good work. Smile

Well, I wanted to Vote Yes, but

PhiLho · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:18 am Post subject:

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3544 Location: Belgrade

Most of u ppl didn't obviously understand how things work here...

You acctually all want RichEdit but you will have to wait 2 years for it. This control can be added in days. I did above wrapper for 2 hours.

In 2 years, RichEdit will be history.

Thx everyone Rolling Eyes

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Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1715

dear majkinetor,
its not nice to see you disappointed like this. i had reasons i didn't jump at seeing this control. i tried your wrapper and checked to see if it supported bold/italic texts, text colors/highlighting etc. i'd have uses for that right away. but the tabs and line nos. though very useful and not easy to code otherwise, i don't have a use for them right away. and that's probably y i'm unable to see from your perspective.
i'm sure there're others who feel similarly.
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