Text Editor in C

[ndimos]

Hi everyone!

I am trying to start a text editor with "Bloodshed Dev-C++" in C language. It should be able to:

--start by presenting a blank screen with a status line at the bottom of it

--write the text filename on the status bar and save the text into a new document

--open and save text files with CTRL+O and CTRL+S key combinations

--move the cursor up, down, left right by pressing the appropriate key. Enter goes to new line (if available)

--clear any text already written by pressing CTRL-N


Any ideas, links or whatever you think would help me, will be higly appreciated. Thank you!!!

[Zaita]

1) Don't use Bloodshed Dev-C++. That product hasn't been supported for a number of years now. Use wxDev-C++ (or wxDev-Cpp it maybe called). This will also provide you with the ability to build GUI forms for wxWidgets

2) Pick a good GUI toolkit to use. wxDevC++ is built around wxWidgets. But there is also QT, GTK and many others you could pick.

[ndimos]

Thank you for the advice!

Any ideas for the coding part?

[Zaita]

Not really. Depending on the GUI Toolkit you pick they each have their own style of building and working with the UI :) wxWidgets is a fairly good one to start with.