RE: Rich Edit Control by public
public
Mon Jul 24 18:43:02 CDT 2006
Not really...
There is no RTF control on CE, atleast as you know it on desktop...
But there is the RichInk (InkX) native control, which is used by Pocket
Word, and Notes...but there are many issues with it:
* Its a native controls, so before you can use it, it has to be wrapped...
There is I believe an example at opennetcf.net. There is also a very good
blog entry on the mobile team's blog...(look up in google for NET/CE/Wrap a
native Control/InkX and you will see it....)
* The documentation at MSDN is ... limited. With the limited info, its not
really enough to make a useful input control out of... There is no
documentation about how to change font/color/weight/style, indent/etc.
Basically, all they have shared with us is ultra simple stuff such as
load/save/background color...
And it's only lately that I found out that there are a lot of other messages
that are not documented... so it will take a certain amount of reverse
engineering, time, and skill to figure out the undocumented part. All 3 of
which I don't have right now. I've looked on the web, and found very little
(look for a thread I posted 2-3 weeks ago, that was starting in this
direction, but the thread has died... Ie, currently, I don't have enough info
to pass on...
* It is meant to understand typed text AND graphic 'doodles'.... sounds neat
at first, until you try to turn off doodling to just concentrate on what you
want: rtf.... you can't...atleast with the messages that MSDN has documented.
So ....good luck! And share any discoveries you make :-)
Sky
"Pugal" wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm developing a mobile based instant Messanger..but I can't able to find
> any sutable control to display the history box.. is there any Rich Edit
> control like option is available for Pocket PC. plz let me know if you have
> any idea..
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Pugal.G
>